A survey of the ideological, political and military processes and structurations attending, and developing through, nearly two centuries of attempts by the European Great Powers of the 18th and especially the 19th centuries to partition the Ottoman Empire, eventually designated as the Sick Man of Europe. May be taken by undergraduates as a taught course (= HIST 450), and simultaneously by graduate students as a research seminar subject to the special requirement of producing a major, 30-page paper based on primary materials. Subject to the fulfillment of these conditions, counts towards completion of the seminar requirement in History.
