The Question of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles
London: Stevens and Haynes, 1917.
Hardcover. Good+ with no dust jacket. Item #14064
Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, light cock, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; INSCRIBED on front free endpaper by Coleman Philippson to R S Fraser, Esq, "With all good wishes." Detailed legal and diplomatic history of the Straits Question - control over access to the Black Sea through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles. Coleman Phillipson was a legal scholar and author of note, while Noel Buxton was a politician with a strong interest in the affairs of the Balkans. Together, before the end of World War One, they discuss the thorny history of the Straits and suggest possible postwar solutions, favoring internationalisation. History was unfair to their scholarly views, as the Russian Revolution and the rise of Ataturk's Turkey rendered their calculations moot. ; Ex-Library; xvi, 264 pages; Signed by Author.
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