The ‘principles of humanity’ and the European powers' intervention in Ottoman Lebanon and Syria in 1860–1861

Rodogno, Davide; Simms, Brendan; Trim, D. J. B.

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511921292.007

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“…123 In this perspective this case study deals with a humanitarian intervention, including a declaration of disinterest in the political domain or the acquisition of territory. 124 The allied forces arrived in the Bay of Naples. On 21 October 1856, diplomatic relations broke down between Great Britain, France and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.…”

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Political Prisoners of the Italian Mezzogiorno: A Transnational Question of the Nineteenth Century

Bacchin

2020

European History Quarterly

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Through a case study of a group of Neapolitan political activists incarcerated in Naples after the 1848 Revolution, this article aims to rescue the Italian convicts’ experience from its subsidiary status, presenting the prisons as a site of struggle and in particular highlighting the international, European dimension of political imprisonment in the nineteenth century. I argue that together with the exiled, political prisoners also acted as transnational actors of the Risorgimento; they aroused the interest of both public opinion and the world of diplomacy and were perceived as a humanitarian cause. Neapolitan political prisoners became spokespersons of their national and political cause abroad, had a clear agency and exploited European public opinion. This study will thus explore the dynamics of the Risorgimento from a transnational perspective, as well as in relation to British and French imperialistic policies in the Mediterranean, the international de-legitimization of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and more generally in terms of foreign humanitarian interventions in the nineteenth century and the role of political prisoners. The Neapolitan dungeons were not significantly different from those of other European states; however, they became the target of international diplomacy showing how Naples was considered somewhat in between European and non-European states.

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Political Prisoners of the Italian Mezzogiorno: A Transnational Question of the Nineteenth Century

Bacchin

2020

European History Quarterly

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“…The British played almost the same role with the Druzes and for a while Palmerston toyed with the idea of a 'special relationship' with the Druzes (the missionaries went even further in the belief that they could convert the Druzes to Protestantism). 16 The French and British consuls as well as the consuls of other powers, especially Russia (as regards the Lebanese Greek Orthodox community), became routinely involved in various aspects of Lebanese life. 17 European interest in the region had also another dimension worth referring to.…”

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