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Diplomacy and Intelligence in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World Diplomacy and Intelligence in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World Edited by Mika Suonpää and Owain Wright BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in Great Britain 2019 Copyright © Mika Suonpää and Owain Wright, 2019 Mika Suonpää and Owain Wright have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Authors of this work. Cover image: Suez Canal. Egypt. Opened in November 1869. Watercolor by Riou. Compiegne Castle. France. (© PHAS/UIG via Getty Images) All rights reserved. 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Ltd., Chennai, India To find out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.com and sign up for our newsletters. This book is dedicated to the memory of Ferry de Goey Contents List of Contributors viii Introduction: Diplomacy and intelligence during the early modern and modern periods Mika Suonpää 1 1 The Swedish consulate in Tripoli and information-gathering on diplomacy, everyday life and the slave trade, 1795–1844 Joachim Östlund 17 2 Hanmer Warrington and imperial intelligence-gathering in Tripoli, 1814–36 Sara ElGaddari 37 3 The Russian consulate in the Morea and the outbreak of the Greek Revolution, 1816–21 Lucien J. Frary 57 4 Austrian intelligence and the national interest in the Mediterranean region during the early nineteenth century David Schriffl 79 5 Playing the liberal game: Sir James Hudson in Italy, 1852–85 Nick Carter 101 6 The Dutch consul J. A. Kruyt and the policing of Muslim pilgrims in Jeddah, c.1858–88 Ferry de Goey 133 7 Intelligence and conquest in nineteenth-century French North Africa Deborah Bauer 157 8 To save a Kaiser: Imperial German intelligence and protective security in the Orient, 1898 Shlomo Shpiro 177 9 A Japanese protégé in Pera: Fukuchi Gen’ichirō’s reports on the mixed courts of Turkey and Egypt Andrew Cobbing 197 10 Annual reports of United States consuls in the Holy Land as sources for the study of nineteenth-century Palestine Ruth Kark 217 Index 239 Contributors Deborah Bauer is Assistant Professor of Modern European History at Purdue University at Fort Wayne in the United States. Her research and publications have centred on various aspects of the professionalization of intelligence in France and the French Empire during the fin-de-siècle. Nick Carter is Associate Professor of Modern History at Australian Catholic University in Sydney. He is a specialist on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian history. He is author of Modern Italy in Historical Perspective (2010) and editor of Britain, Ireland and the Italian Risorgimento (2015). His current research examines the management and memory of fascist monumental art and architecture in post-war and contemporary Italy. His most recent (co-authored) work, published in the Journal of Modern Italian Studies in 2017, explores the post-Fascist ‘afterlives’ of Luigi Montanarini’s monumental mural The Apotheosis of Fascism (1942). Andrew Cobbing is Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, has written several books and articles on Japanese cultural and diplomatic relations with the West in the nineteenth century. He has also been involved in a number of landmark translation projects, notably the English rendition of the official chronicle of the Iwakura Embassy (1871–3). Ferry de Goey was Assistant Professor of Business and Entrepreneurial History at Erasmus University at Rotterdam in the Netherlands. During a distinguished career, he authored or edited more than one hundred publications, including Consuls and the Institutions of Capitalism, 1783–1914. He passed away shortly before the publication of this volume, which is dedicated to his memory. Sara ElGaddari is a postdoctoral researcher based in the United Kingdom. Her work focuses on diplomatic relations between the Middle East and North Africa at the turn of the nineteenth century. She is the author of a number of publications, and her current projects include an edited volume on diplomatic correspondence for the Royal Historical Society and Cambridge University Press, a monograph based on her doctoral thesis, and several articles in progress. Contributors ix Lucien J. Frary is Associate Professor at Rider University in the United States. His research deals with the intersection of the Slavic, Greek, and Ottoman worlds from the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until recent times. He is the author of Russia and the Making of Modern Greek Identity, 1821–1844, editor of Thresholds into the Orthodox Commonwealth, and co-editor of Russian- Ottoman Borderlands: The Eastern Question Reconsidered. Ruth Kark is Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He has written and edited 27 books and 200 articles on the history and historical geography of Palestine/Israel. Her research interests include, among other topics, Ottoman building, land and settlement activity, policy and law, Western civilizations and the Holy Land (consuls, churches, missionaries, modern technology), as well as Bedouin in the Middle East; and dissent and conflict surrounding landownership in Israel. Joachim Östlund is Associate Professor of History at Lund University and Lecturer at Linnaeus University, Sweden. His research explores interactions between the Ottoman Empire and Scandinavia in the early modern era, and is centred on diplomacy, slavery, cultural encounters and objects. David Schriffl is a historian at the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Historical Research/Austrian Academy of Sciences, and former historian at the General Settlement Fund for Victims of National Socialism in Vienna, Austria. His main fields of work include Austro-Slovak relations, Austro-Portuguese relations and Austrian foreign policy after 1945. Shlomo Shpiro holds the Paterson Chair in Security and Intelligence, and was until recently Head of the Political Studies Department at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He specializes in the fields of intelligence, terrorism and security, with emphasis on crisis management and crisis communication, counterterrorism, societal resilience and internal security issues. Mika Suonpää is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary European History at the University of Turku in Finland. His research interests range from modern international history to histories of intelligence, espionage and international policing. His current research focuses on the security police cooperation in the Baltic Sea region during the interwar period.
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