Nationalism and War in the Near East Author:George Young General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1915 Original Publisher: Clarendon Press Subjects: Eastern question (Balkan) Balkan Peninsula History / Europe / Baltic States History / Europe / Eastern Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or miss... more »ing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II THE EASTERN QUESTION § 4. Byzantinism. § 5. Hellenism. § 6. Panslavism and Philhellenism. Clime of the unforgotten brave ! Whose land from plain to mountain cave Was Freedom's home or Glory's grave. Shrine of the mighty, can it be That this is all remains of thee ? . . . Enough -- no foreign foe could quell Thy soul, till from itself it fell. -- Byhon. § 4. Byzantinism Historically considered the Balkan War of the Coalition is a perfectly normal development of the nationalist movement. Not so inspiring perhaps as the Italian risorgimento that first showed our fathers the meaning of the historical movements of the nineteenth century in Europe, nor yet so important perhaps as the Chinese revolution that may teach our sons the meaning of the historical movements of the twentieth century in Asia; but more epoch-making than either in that it rounds off the last chapter in the current volume of the story of the nations. The chapter is the history of the ' Eastern Question', or, as we should say now with our wider horizon, of the Near Eastern Question. The volume is that of the nationality movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- the history of the epoch of national democracy. The Balkan settlement by war is not a mere corollary to national and international history of the nineteenth century ; but may be described as its culmination, and might, under better human guidance, have become its crown. It is a culmination...« less