A reassessment of anti-Ottoman palacards in Syria, 1878-1881

Abstract

Makale yazarı aynı zamanda kitap editörü olduğu için önsöz bilgisi, ayrı bir dosya olarak verilmiştir. Kitabın basılı hali İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi'nde mevcuttur.Soon after the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877-78, anti-Ottoman placards appeared in important cities of the province of Syria, like Beirut and Damascus, between 1878 and 1881. There are four groups of placards that appeared in Syria during the period under study. The first instance took place in July 1878 when two placards, one in Turkish and one in Arabic, appeared on the streets of Damascus. The second group appeared on the streets of Beirut in June 1880 and John Dickson, the British acting consul, provided a copy of each of the two different placards in Arabic. The third group of placards were posted up on the streets of Beirut, Sidon and Tripoli, and Dickson provided the British Foreign Office with a copy of the placard that had appeared in Beirut. The last placard under review is a printed one, dated March 1881 and distributed by the foreign postal services to the European consuls serving in the Arab province