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A Question Presenting a Host of Difficulties: Sir Henry Bulwer, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe and the Danubian Principalities, 1856–1858
Author(s) -
GUYMER LAURENCE
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.12
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1468-229X
pISSN - 0018-2648
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-229x.2010.00505.x
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , history , power (physics) , politics , ancient history , ethnology , law , archaeology , political science , physics , quantum mechanics
This article uses Sir Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer's time as British commissioner to investigate the internal condition of the Danubian Principalities between 1856 and 1858 as a prism through which to view Britain's handling of Anglo‐French relations and of the ‘Eastern Question’. It will explore the assumptions underpinning Whig policy towards France and the Ottoman empire in the immediate post‐Crimean period, and examine the balance of power in British decision‐making at London and Constantinople. Analysis of Bulwer's role illuminates British policy by placing his mission in a clearer context than has been the case hitherto.