Constructing Ionian Identities: The Ionian Islands in British Official Discourses; 1815-1864
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Utilising material such as colonial correspondence, private papers, \nparliamentary debates and the press, this thesis examines how the Ionian Islands \nwere defined by British politicians and how this influenced various forms of rule in \nthe Islands between 1815 and 1864. It explores the articulation of particular forms of \ncolonial subjectivities for the Ionian people by colonial governors and officials. This \nis set in the context of political reforms that occurred in Britain and the Empire \nduring the first half of the nineteenth-century, especially in the white settler colonies, \nsuch as Canada and Australia. It reveals how British understandings of Ionian \npeoples led to complex negotiations of otherness, informing the development of \nvarieties of colonial rule. Britain suggested a variety of forms of government for the \nIonians ranging from authoritarian (during the governorships of T. Maitland, H. \nDouglas, H. Ward, J. Young, H. Storks) to representative (under Lord Nugent, and \nLord Seaton), to responsible government (under W. Gladstone’s tenure in office). All \nthese attempted solutions (over fifty years) failed to make the Ionian Islands \ngovernable for Britain. The Ionian Protectorate was a failed colonial experiment in \nEurope, highlighting the difficulties of governing white, Christian Europeans within \na colonial framework.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".