FORCES OF LIBERALISM AND CONSERVATISM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE ITALIAN PENINSULA AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Journal: OpenMETU (Middle East Technical University)
Year: 2011

This thesis analyses the position of the Ottoman Empire and the Italian penin- sula and their position in the international scenario during the 19th century. This work studies the developments in the Ottoman Empire and the Italian peninsula from the beginning of the Tanzimat (in the Ottoman Empire) and the Risorgimento (in the Italian peninsula), until the Crimean War, and eval- uates the consequences of these events for the European balance of power. These developments took place at a time when