Richard Millman (1932–1983) was an American historian at the

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.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. Millman was appointed instructor at

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for 1960–1961. His 1979 work on

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's policy during the

Great Eastern Crisis The Great Eastern Crisis of 1875–78 began in the Ottoman Empire's territories on the Balkan peninsula in 1875, with the outbreak of several uprisings and wars that resulted in the intervention of international powers, and was ended with the T ...

of 1875–78 (''Britain and the Eastern Question'') was called the "authoritative account" by

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and a "masterly achievement" by John Vincent.John Vincent, 'Reviewed Work: Britain and the Eastern Question, 1875-1878 by Richard Millman', ''History'', Vol. 65, No. 214 (1980), p. 321. 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".

Works

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

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Millman, Richard 1932 births 1983 deaths University of Illinois Chicago faculty 20th-century American historians