Jack Fairey has taught European, Ottoman, Greek, and Mediterranean history at the National University of Singapore and at Queens University and York University in Canada. His research work deals primarily with Orthodox Christendom and the early modern empires of the eastern Mediterranean.

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• Table of Contents 1. Reason in Exile: The War for the Eastern Church 2. A Patriarch's Progress: The Great Church under Grigorios 3. Ponsonby vs the Patriarch: Orthodoxy & European Diplomacy 4. 'The Great Game of Improvements': Resid Pasa & Reform 5. A Cossack Takes the Cross: Prince Menshikov's Crusade 6. Ambassadors of Peace: Recasting Ottoman Christendom 7. 'A Complete Revolution': The Great Church & the Great Powers