{"title":"Prelude to genocide: “the Armenian question” and the massacres in the Ottoman Empire","authors":"R. Tanasă","doi":"10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:49","url":null,"abstract":"The faith of the Ottoman Armenians was closely linked to the decline of the Ottoman Empire in the last decades of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th century. The interests of the European diplomacy, the bundle of religious and ethnic communities competing for status and resources, the administrative inefficiency and corruption of state officials and a mischievous rule of Abdul Hamid II created the powder keg that led to a political deterioration for all parties involved in the Ottoman “millet system”. The status-quo of centuries of Muslim ascendancy was succumbing and the sultan’s authority was menaced by the lack of unity between the different state constituents. The Ottoman elite started looking for someone to blame for the fall back and since the Armenians were eager to improve their condition, even working together with the external enemies of the Porte, they gradually became the excellent scapegoat. The political fragility of the Ottoman state made the massacres against the Armenians possible, opening the path for a prospect to better homogenize and strengthen the state: the physical exclusion of Armenians through annihilation or ottomanization/turkification.","PeriodicalId":235601,"journal":{"name":"The Romanian Journal of Modern History","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127954625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review - Un destin, o vocaţie. Cătălin Turliuc, Petre P. Carp.","authors":"Mircea-Cristian Ghenghea","doi":"10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:95","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":235601,"journal":{"name":"The Romanian Journal of Modern History","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127990983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Romanian dynastic honours in today’s Republic: a historical perspective","authors":"Tudor Vişan-Miu","doi":"10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:27","url":null,"abstract":"On 10 May 2008, King Michael, the former sovereign of Romania, created two dynastic medals and awarded them to a group of loyalists during a public ceremony. Since then, the Romanian Royal Family’s decorations (consisting today of four medals and two dynastic orders) were bestowed upon a total close to 500 individuals and 100 organisations. National and foreign dignitaries, active military officers and public institutions accepted royal honours while the state proved perfectly tolerant and the national press entertained the idea of “royal decorations” being equally valuable, from a symbolic standpoint, as those conferred by the state. In our study we will examine Romania’s contemporary royal honours, providing a comparative perspective with other royal “fontes honorum” in Europe’s former monarchies.","PeriodicalId":235601,"journal":{"name":"The Romanian Journal of Modern History","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128076907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review - Tudor Vişan-Miu, Mareşalii Palatului. Demnitari ai Curţii regilor României, 1866-1947","authors":"Tudor-Radu Tiron","doi":"10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:87","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:87","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":235601,"journal":{"name":"The Romanian Journal of Modern History","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115540933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Baron Franz Nopcsa: the man who would be king of Albania","authors":"R. Kaplan","doi":"10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:39","url":null,"abstract":"\"Franz Nopcsa, a polymath who was a founder of palaeophysiology, in addition to making great contributions on palaeontology, geography, philology and Balkan ethnography with a special focus on Albania. Coming from an aristocratic family in Transylvania, he was one of the first palaeobiologists, promoted the idea of tectonic plate movement and what is now known as the island rule, in addition to discovering 25 reptile genera and five dinosaurs. He was, however, a difficult personality with a rudeness and arrogance that antagonised many colleagues and left him marginalised. Nopcsa spent long periods in Albania, then a wild and isolated country for the West, staying with the hill people of Shkodra and travelling widely, making him a leading ethologist and expert on the languages, culture and tribal law. Nopsca challenged conventional attitudes towards sex as well, having a relationship with Bajazid Doda, which lasted till the end of their lives. Nopcsa’s financially-comfortable life ended after World War 1 and it was a struggle to support himself after that. Nevertheless, he continued to travel and put out publications. Unwell, struggling financially and depressed, on 25 April 1933 he killed Doda and himself, leaving a suicide note. Franz Nopcsa came from the last days of the Habsburg Empire with so many other radiant talents. He was one of the last ‘gifted amateurs’ who adapted poorly to the new classless world of professional academics, but his phenomenal creativity and output should not be forgotten.\"","PeriodicalId":235601,"journal":{"name":"The Romanian Journal of Modern History","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115776990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review - Serbările de la Putna, 1871. Publicistică, documente, amintiri","authors":"Mircea-Cristian Ghenghea","doi":"10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:91","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":235601,"journal":{"name":"The Romanian Journal of Modern History","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122144138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“War against the Double Alliance would be a disaster”. Ilie Bărbulescu, the “Seara” newspaper, and Romania’s neutrality (1914-1916)","authors":"Mircea-Cristian Ghenghea","doi":"10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:61","url":null,"abstract":"In the attempt of reconsidering and properly understanding the so-called Germanophile option of a part of the Romanian society during the Great War, knowing those who have placed themselves on the side of the Central Powers is a sine qua non condition. Apart from the personalities already recognized for this, one must also consider other names who, although not always in the foreground of the events or on the spotlights of the press, presented an unquestionable regional or institutional importance for the realities of those troubles years. One of these figures was Professor Ilie Bărbulescu from the University of Iaşi, well-known back then for his “unpatriotic” views which caused a lively opposition both from students and some of his colleagues. Within our text we refer to his collaboration to the “Seara” newspaper in Bucharest, one of the most important Germanophile periodicals in Romania during the neutrality (1914-1916).","PeriodicalId":235601,"journal":{"name":"The Romanian Journal of Modern History","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123581575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constantin Negruzzi (1808-1868), “our first great modern prose writer”","authors":"Iulian Pruteanu-Isăcescu","doi":"10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:5","url":null,"abstract":"Constantin Negruzzi was born in 1808, at the Negruzzi family estate in Trifeștii Vechi, also known as Hermeziu (Iași County). He began his public activity in 1825, as an office clerk at the Treasury Department of the Principality of Moldavia, becoming a distinguished statesman and an eminent author. He is considered our first great modern prose writer. In the first issue of the magazine “Dacia literară” (1840), he published the historical novella Alexandru Lăpușneanul, his most successful literary piece, “which would have become a famous work like Hamlet if Romanian literature had the prestige of a universal language to help it”, according to George Călinescu, the famous literary critic. Constantin Negruzzi died in the spring of 1868, in Iași, and Titu Maiorescu reminded the readers of the magazine “Convorbiri literare” that “with Constantin Negruzzi the Romanian literature lost one of the few authors whose writings showed our reborn literature a salutary path”.","PeriodicalId":235601,"journal":{"name":"The Romanian Journal of Modern History","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128541454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Yeames family and the British General Consulate at the Black Sea ports, 1819-1821","authors":"Eusebiu Diaconu","doi":"10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:13","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this study is to analyze a fragment of the history of British diplomacy on duty in the territory of the Russian Empire between 1819 and 1821. Our attention will be focused on the work of the British Consul General, James Yeames, settled in Odessa, the residence of the Consulate General of the Black Sea Port, who at the beginning of 1819 would take over the position from his father, Henry Savage Yeames. Starting from the existing historical studies on this subject, focused mainly on the period of 1803-1819, we intend to continue both the analysis of the activity of the British consulate and of the consul Yeames using different historiographical sources, such as memoirs, archival documents and special studies dedicated to this subject. The questions raised in this text on issues of British diplomacy, such as what salary the consul in Odessa had, how the resources of the consulate were managed, what tasks James Yeames had to accomplish, what the greatest challenges in the job description were, will be answered as a result of our analysis.","PeriodicalId":235601,"journal":{"name":"The Romanian Journal of Modern History","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132847501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}