Croatian - British views of the Eastern Question: The correspondence of William Ewart Gladstone and Josip Juraj Strossmayer (1876-1882)

In the analysis of the historical context in which this correspondence emerged, the author made use of the existing literature and published and unpublished archival materials. The author endeavors to provide a response to the question as to whether and to what extent Gladestone and Strossmayer\u27s views were relevant when it comes to the formulation of the specific political decisions of the goverment of the states in which they lived and worked. This correspondence is of great relevance form the historiografic standpoint, too. It contains many vital, and in the case of Gladestone\u27s letters, hitherto entirely unknown facts which provide comprehensive insight into the views of one of the momentous periods in recent European history by this great Bristish statesman of the Victorian era