Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-384) and index.
International context of nineteenth-century humanitarian interventions -- Exclusion of the Ottoman Empire from the family of nations, and legal doctrines of humanitarian intervention -- Intervention on behalf of Ottoman Greeks (1821-33) -- Intervention in Ottoman Lebanon and Syria (1860-61) -- The first intervention in Crete (1866-69) -- Nonintervention during the Eastern Crisis (1875-78) -- Intermezzo: the international context (1878-1908) -- Nonintervention on behalf of the Ottoman Armenians (1886-1909) -- The second intervention in Crete (1896-1900) -- Nonforcible intervention in the Ottoman Macedonian provinces (1903-08)