Basil C Gounaris
Biographic Data
| ID | 4381017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Basil C Gounaris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Basil C |
| FAMILY NAME | Gounaris |
| SIGNATURE | GOUNARIS B C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1425-5149 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Albanian Regiment
The Macedonian Front, 1915–1918
Blood Brothers in Despair
In the last stage of the disastrous war for Greek independence (1829‐31), the suggested northern frontier line changed three times. The uncertain future of the region, the pressure of the central government to create regular armed forces and to safeguard security along the new border land brought the local Greek and Albanian military élites, after ten years of heavy fighting, in an awkward position. Their options were restricted and their welfare…
The Alexei Obrescoff Case
In 1954 M. S. Anderson, considering the impediments prohibiting a successful British mediation between Catherine II and Mustafa III, judged that Ambassador John Murray and Whitehall were carried away because they could not see the complex picture of Eastern diplomacy. In this paper, it will be argued that the Ambassador's miscalculated optimism and the hastiness of London were due to a neglected factor: the imprisonment of the Russian Resident at…
Unwanted Heroes? British Privateering, Commerce, and Diplomacy in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Eastern Mediterranean
This article argues that the legitimacy and the effectiveness of privateering in the mid-eighteenth-century Mediterranean were determined by high politics beyond the indispensable war status. After the presentation of four distinctive privateering stories involving individuals of different backgrounds, there follows an analysis of the Ottoman, French, and British factors that determined national and private interests in wartime Archipelago (the A…
Victims and avengers of the nation
Macedonian questions
Despite many recent postmodernist approaches ‘historicity’ as a quality of state rights in the Balkans was not dismissed. Ethnicity, in its historic dimension, is still considered almost unanimously as the fundamental ingredient of any attempt to understand the Macedonian Question; be it for strengthening or for weakening state or minority arguments. I will argue instead that in reality the question of ethnic identities is only a convenient and f…
From Peasants into Urbanites, from Village into Nation
The article discusses how the process and timing of urbanization as well as the consequent social cleavages related to the cultural division of labour affected the local politics of Greek and Bulgarian nationalism in the Ottoman provincial town of Monastir (now Bitola) at the turn of the century. It maintains the view that nationalism extensively exploited social divisions and individual aspirations, but could neither ignore the laws of the free-…
Doing business in Macedonia
British financial concerns in Greek Macedonia in the aftermath of the Balkan Wars were four: the status of the port and the city of Salonica after the partition of its hinterland and under Greek law; the regular conduct of trade; the sufficient provisioning of the allied expeditionary forces (from the fall of 1915 onwards) under the auspices of the Greek Provisional Government of Eleftherios Venizelos; and business, not necessarily related direct…
Railway construction and labour availability in Macedonia in the late nineteenth century
By the early 1870s railway construction in Turkey, both Asiatic and European, was no longer a pioneering project. The Sublime Porte had already granted four concessions to British companies for railway lines in Asia Minor and in the Balkans. For more than one reason railways seemed to be a first class choice for raising the public revenue. They would open large areas to exploitation and would reinforce central government control over remote distr…
Doing business in Macedonia
British financial concerns in Greek Macedonia in the aftermath of the Balkan Wars were four: the status of the port and the city of Salonica after the partition of its hinterland and under Greek law; the regular conduct of trade; the sufficient provisioning of the allied expeditionary forces (from the fall of 1915 onwards) under the auspices of the Greek Provisional Government of Eleftherios Venizelos; and business, not necessarily related direct…
From Peasants into Urbanites, from Village into Nation
The article discusses how the process and timing of urbanization as well as the consequent social cleavages related to the cultural division of labour affected the local politics of Greek and Bulgarian nationalism in the Ottoman provincial town of Monastir (now Bitola) at the turn of the century. It maintains the view that nationalism extensively exploited social divisions and individual aspirations, but could neither ignore the laws of the free-…
Railway construction and labour availability in Macedonia in the late nineteenth century
By the early 1870s railway construction in Turkey, both Asiatic and European, was no longer a pioneering project. The Sublime Porte had already granted four concessions to British companies for railway lines in Asia Minor and in the Balkans. For more than one reason railways seemed to be a first class choice for raising the public revenue. They would open large areas to exploitation and would reinforce central government control over remote distr…
Doing business in Macedonia
British financial concerns in Greek Macedonia in the aftermath of the Balkan Wars were four: the status of the port and the city of Salonica after the partition of its hinterland and under Greek law; the regular conduct of trade; the sufficient provisioning of the allied expeditionary forces (from the fall of 1915 onwards) under the auspices of the Greek Provisional Government of Eleftherios Venizelos; and business, not necessarily related direct…
From Peasants into Urbanites, from Village into Nation
The article discusses how the process and timing of urbanization as well as the consequent social cleavages related to the cultural division of labour affected the local politics of Greek and Bulgarian nationalism in the Ottoman provincial town of Monastir (now Bitola) at the turn of the century. It maintains the view that nationalism extensively exploited social divisions and individual aspirations, but could neither ignore the laws of the free-…
Macedonian questions
Despite many recent postmodernist approaches ‘historicity’ as a quality of state rights in the Balkans was not dismissed. Ethnicity, in its historic dimension, is still considered almost unanimously as the fundamental ingredient of any attempt to understand the Macedonian Question; be it for strengthening or for weakening state or minority arguments. I will argue instead that in reality the question of ethnic identities is only a convenient and f…
Victims and avengers of the nation
Unwanted Heroes? British Privateering, Commerce, and Diplomacy in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Eastern Mediterranean
This article argues that the legitimacy and the effectiveness of privateering in the mid-eighteenth-century Mediterranean were determined by high politics beyond the indispensable war status. After the presentation of four distinctive privateering stories involving individuals of different backgrounds, there follows an analysis of the Ottoman, French, and British factors that determined national and private interests in wartime Archipelago (the A…
The Alexei Obrescoff Case
In 1954 M. S. Anderson, considering the impediments prohibiting a successful British mediation between Catherine II and Mustafa III, judged that Ambassador John Murray and Whitehall were carried away because they could not see the complex picture of Eastern diplomacy. In this paper, it will be argued that the Ambassador's miscalculated optimism and the hastiness of London were due to a neglected factor: the imprisonment of the Russian Resident at…
Blood Brothers in Despair
In the last stage of the disastrous war for Greek independence (1829‐31), the suggested northern frontier line changed three times. The uncertain future of the region, the pressure of the central government to create regular armed forces and to safeguard security along the new border land brought the local Greek and Albanian military élites, after ten years of heavy fighting, in an awkward position. Their options were restricted and their welfare…
The Macedonian Front, 1915–1918
The Albanian Regiment
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