The Macedonian Question in the Eves of British Journalists (1899-1919) (Albanian Studies) - Softcover

Elsie, Robert; Destani, Bejtullah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1508696829 ISBN 13: 9781508696827

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

By the end of the nineteenth and certainly by the first decade of the twentieth century, governance in Ottoman Macedonia had broken down almost entirely. Armed bands, many in the guise of nationalist movements, robbed and terrorized the civilian population, and pitted one ethnic or religious group against the other. These ethnic conflicts, that gave rise to massacres and terrible suffering, in particular for the peasant population, were exacerbated not only by Ottoman administrative incompetence, but also by the Great Powers, each of which was determined to ensure and promote its own political and commercial interests in the region. This volume gathers together editorials and reports by many noted British journalists and writers of the period, figures whose writings kept the British authorities and the British public informed of the chaos that raged in Macedonia from the late nineteenth century to the end of the First World War.

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About the Author:

Robert Elsie is an internationally recognized expert in the field of Albanian studies and the author of many books on the history and culture of Albania. See www.elsie.de Bejtullah Destani is a British-Kosovar scholar and founder of the Centre for Albanian Studies in London. As a diplomat, he has served recently at the Embassies of the Republic of Kosovo in London and Rome.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1508696829
• ISBN 13: 9781508696827
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314