The Eastern Question, 1806-1914

Undergraduate / Graduate

The course will examine history of European Great Power competition as it related to the Ottoman Empire. It will particularly focus on European perceptions of the Ottoman Empire as weak and on the ambitions of various European states to fill a possible power vacuum arising therefrom. It will also examine the role of emerging national sentiment among Ottoman subjects, especially in the Balkans, and the interaction of these with the "Eastern Question." This course is open to both graduate and undergraduate students.