"At the End of Empire: Imperial Governace, Inter-Imperial..." Topic

…Rivalry and "Autonomy" in Wallachia and Moldavia (1780s-1850s)

"This dissertation recreates the biography of several power holders in Wallachia and Moldavia to explore how local, imperial and inter-imperial politics interacted on this Ottoman borderland between the 1780s and 1850s and promoted European imperialist aims in the Ottoman Empire. For this purpose, it provides an analysis of Ottoman rule on a borderland inhabited by a Christian population and located near two Christian empires, the Habsburg and the Russian, the latter of which pursued an active expansionist policy against the Ottoman Empire. It also explores the interplay between the politics of local power holders who aimed to enhance their position and the forms of political intervention that the competing European empires deployed to exert control over the Ottoman Empire in contraction. It suggests that the major turning point in the history of Ottoman imperial rule over this borderland occurred after the European powers devised formal agreements in the 1830s to formally create the notions of European protection of the Ottoman Empire, of restricted Ottoman rule in the Christian Balkan dominions and of local "autonomous" governments, which accommodated the elites on site.

The study is divided in four chapters that retrace the interaction of local and imperial interests on the borderland during the Russian-Habsburg-Ottoman wars of 1787-1791/1792, the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815), and the Russian-Ottoman war of 1828-1829. These chapters reveal the transformation of forms of European expansion against the Ottoman Empire, as tested on the Danube borderlands: from territorial annexation to diplomatic influence, imperial condominium and the creation of a body of international law pertaining to the Ottoman Empire…"
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