The Orient, the Liberal Movement, and the Eastern Crisis of 1839-41

This book focuses on the Eastern Crisis of 1839-41, closely examining the first instance of coordinated Western intervention in the Middle East during the modern era. Readers can explore topics such as how culture, domestic politics, and ideology shaped diplomacy in this landmark crisis, and the importance role played by religion - including, alongside mainstream Christianity, the Protestant Zionist movement. Highly informative and fully researched, this book suggests that the Eastern Crisis - and its associated diplomatic and military efforts - marked the first of many modern-era attempts to “improve” the region by moulding it in a Western image, providing scholars with a new perspective on this period of history.

• Middle East
• Western Diplomacy
• Ottoman
• Zionism
• Rhine Crisis

“P.E. Caquet has written that rare thing: a truly transnational, multi-archival, culturally-informed and diplomatically-nuanced study of the Eastern Crisis, which locates that seminal crisis in its proper global context, and it reads beautifully to boot!” (Brendan Simms, Director of the Cambridge Forum on Geopolitics, UK)

• University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

  P. E. Caquet

P.E. Caquet is a senior member of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, UK. A historian of nineteenth and twentieth-century international relations, his publications examine the roles of culture, ideology, and religion in diplomacy, highlighting the impact of ideas on international events. His work includes articles such as ‘Notions of Addiction in the Time of the Opium War’ (The Historical Journal, 2015) and ‘The Napoleonic Legend and the War Scare of 1840’ (International History Review, 2013)

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