01:510:381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Eastern Question, Bashi-Bazouk, Jingoism
28 Mar 2017
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Lord byron english poet + portrait of him dressed in albanian outfit (fought in greek revolt). Poem: very familiar with greek history and fascinated with it felt it was up to him as a poet to recreate that glory (excited but felt inadequate for the task) Note: at this time the area that was greece was under. Ottoman control: this whole episode brings up two things: 1) he was caught up in one of several breakaway movements that was going on in ottoman empire (greek, serbia, bulgaria, etc. ). 2) western europeans followed events in southeastern. Didn"t really understand the situation/political/culture but interpreted it and made assumptions/conclusions about it = the way people project ideas on the balkans. Overall early 1920"s there are series of violent uprisings in the balkans against ottoman control: ottomans executed orthodox christian patriarch, west followed this with tremendously close attention newspapers and international support.
