Richard Millman (historian)

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Richard Millman (1932–1983) was an American historian at the University of Illinois.[1][2]

Millman was appointed instructor at Temple University for 1960–1961.[3]

His 1979 work on Benjamin Disraeli's policy during the Great Eastern Crisis of 1875–78 (Britain and the Eastern Question) was called the "authoritative account" by M. R. D. Foot[4] and a "masterly achievement" by John Vincent.[5] According to Richard Shannon, Millman "challenges the Seton-Watsonian tradition and boldly essays to restore the credibility of Disraeli's attempt to reassert the Palmerstonian tradition of maintaining the independence and integrity of the Ottoman Empire as a capital British interest".[2]

Works[edit]

  • British Foreign Policy and the Coming of the Franco-Prussian War (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965). ISBN 0198213271
  • Britain and the Eastern Question, 1875-1878 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979). ISBN 019822379X
  • 'The Bulgarian Massacres Reconsidered', The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 58, No. 2 (Apr., 1980), pp. 218–231.

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ J. J. Sack, From Jacobite to Conservative. Reaction and Orthodoxy in Britain, c. 1760–1832 (Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. v.
  2. ^ a b Richard Shannon, 'Reviewed Work: Britain and the Eastern Question, 1875-1878 by Richard Millman', The English Historical Review Vol. 96, No. 378 (Jan., 1981), p. 169.
  3. ^ S. W. Higginbotham, 'News and Comment', Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1 (January, 1961), p. 84.
  4. ^ M. R. D. Foot, 'Reviewed Work: Britain and the Eastern Question, 1875-1878 by Richard Millman', Victorian Studies Vol. 23, No. 4 (Summer, 1980), p. 520.
  5. ^ John Vincent, 'Reviewed Work: Britain and the Eastern Question, 1875-1878 by Richard Millman', History, Vol. 65, No. 214 (1980), p. 321.