HISTORICAL YEARBOOK

VOLUME XIX, 2022

Contents

KEITH HITCHINS AND THE ROMANIANS

Keith HITCHINS, EUROPE AT THE DOOR: IDENTITY IN SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE, 1919-1939	5
KEITH HITCHINS (1931-2020). AN ACADEMIC BIOGRAPHY	19
Dennis DELETANT, KEITH HITCHINS	27
Paul E. MICHELSON, KEY CONTRIBUTIONS OF KEITH HITCHINS TO THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF ROMANIA: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION	31
Constantin ARDELEANU, BETWEEN CHOLERA AND OTTOMAN ABUSES: THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION OF THE DANUBE AND THE QUARANTINE REGIME OF THE MARITIME DANUBE (1856–1878)	47
Rebecca HAYNES, IULIU MANIU AND THE ROMANIAN LEGIONARY MOVEMENT	65
Gavin BOWD, VERY BAD TRIP? BRITISH TRAVELLERS IN LATE COMMUNIST ROMANIA	81

DIPLOMACY AND IMPERIALISM

Pandeleimon HIONIDIS, THE CESSION OF THE IONIAN ISLANDS TO GREECE, 1862-4: IMPERIALISM, NATIONALISM, AND BRITISH ADMINISTRATION	93
Zorann PETROVICI, FORMATION ET SÉLECTION DES DIPLOMATES FRANÇAIS ET ESPAGNOLS : VARIABLES NATIONALES DE LA PROFESSIONNALISATION DE LA DIPLOMATIE EUROPÉENNE (1880-1931)	109

COMMUNISM – POLICIES AND MEMORY

Mioara ANTON, SOE IN ROMANIA. PLANS FOR A COUP D’ÉTAT (1943-1944)	127
T.O. SMITH, CLANDESTINE MEETINGS IN HANOI: BRITISH LIAISONS WITH HO CHI MINH, AND VO NGUYEN GIAP, IN 1946	145
Mariyana STAMOVA, YUGOSLAV-ALBANIAN RELATIONS: FROM FRIENDSHIP TO MISUNDERSTANDING (1945–1953)	157
Mirjana MANOJLOVIĆ, QUALITY OF LIFE: DEFINITIONS AND POSSIBILITIES OF RESEARCH. WITH SPECIAL FOCUS ON THE YUGOSLAV CASE	169

21ST CENTURY – HISTORICAL LESSONS AND PERSPECTIVES

Emmanuel Osewe AKUBOR, GEOGRAPHICAL RESOURCES AND THE EMERGENCE OF OCCUPATIONAL (PROFESSIONAL) GROUPS AND INDUSTRIALIZATION: HISTORICAL LESSONS FOR NIGERIA’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY	179
Raihan Rahman RAFID, AN APPRAISAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS’ INITIATIVES IN MEDIATION FOR PEACE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY	203

REVIEW

Ritratto di Nicolae Iorga. Storico, uomo di cultura, patriota A ottant’anni dalla sua tragica scomparsa/Portretul lui Nicolae Iorga. Istoric, om de cultură, patriot. La optzeci de ani de la tragica sa dispariție, a cura di/coordonatori Giuseppe Motta, Roxana Mihaly, Atti del Webinar Internazionale/Actele Webinarului Internațional, 27 noiembrie 2020, Roma: Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2022, 275 p. Georgiana ȚĂRANU	221
Delia Roxana, Cornea, Reședințele regale de la Marea Neagră. Casele de vis ale Reginelor României [Royal residences from the Black Sea. The dream houses of the Queens of Romania], Editura Cetatea de Scaun, Târgoviște, 2021, 254p. Florin ANGHEL	225
Contributors	231