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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 June 2015
    28 August 2014
    ISBN:
    9781107706637
    9781108075985
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107706637
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.51kg, 402 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - European History
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
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    Cambridge Library Collection - European History
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    Leicester Fitzgerald Charles Stanhope (1784–1862) played a controversial role in the struggle for Greek independence. After a career in the Indian army, he offered his services to the London Greek Committee in 1823, and was sent as its agent to Greece. However, his paternalistic view of the Greeks, as childlike 'natives' in need of guidance, was resented both by the Greeks themselves and by other members of the Committee. His approach, which supported the imposition of a unified constitutional system from above, alienated the Greek factions, especially Alexandros Mavrokordatos, whose otherwise pro-British stance was undermined by Stanhope's actions (which also disrupted the delivery of the Committee's loan to the Greeks). Stanhope was recalled by the British government (travelling home with Byron's body) and immediately released his correspondence with the Committee, which was edited and published in 1824, to deflect criticism of his conduct.

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