europe – Manchester Historian

1821 was possibly the most inopportune time to begin a war for independence in Europe. A few years prior, Napoleon was crushed, and the European powers inaugurated a revived conservative status quo in the Congress of Vienna that endeavoured to prevent any further upsets to the continent’s power balance. No more shocks and a good dose of conservative rule. Then came the Greeks declaring independence.

Ned Rodger looks at the history of the West’s relationship with Syria and the rest of the Arab world dating back to the Treaty of Versailles.

A review of Dr Parthasarathi’s lecture on the European-Asian economic divergence.

In conversation with the History department’s latest addition