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The Greek Revolution in the Age of Revolutions (1776-1848) brings together twenty-one scholars and a host of original ideas, revisionist arguments, and new information to mark the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution of 1821.
The purpose of this volume is to demonstrate the significance of the Greek liberation struggle to international history, and to highlight how it was a turning point that signalled the revival of revolution in Europe after the defeat of the French Revolution in 1815. It argues that the sacrifices of rebellious Greeks paved the way for other resistance movements in European politics, culminating in the 'spring of European peoples' in 1848. Richly researched and innovative in approach, this volume also considers the diplomatic and transnational aspects of the insurrection, and examines hitherto unexplored dimensions of revolutionary change in the Greek world.
This book will appeal to scholars and students of the Age of Revolution, as well as those interested in comparative and transnational history, political theory and constitutional law.
List of contents
The Greek World in the Age of Revolution Part I: Resonances of the Age of Revolution I 1. Revolutions in Europe (1776-1848) 2. The Greek Revolution and the Age of Revolution 3. Greece, Spain and the Theory of Emancipation in early European Liberalism 4. Austria and the 1820s Revolutions: Between the Heritage of the Congress of Vienna and Political Change Part II: Resonances of the Age of Revolution 5. Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the 1820s: Philhellenism(s) in the Public Sphere 6. Greece and the Liberal Revolutions of 1820-1823 in Southern Europe 7. Greece and 1848: direct responses and underlying connectivities 8. «Che dura prova è tentar di greca aquila il dorso». The Greek War of Independence and its Resonance in Sicilian Culture of the Nineteenth Century Part III: Reverberations of Revolution in Eastern and Southern Europe 9. Russia and Greece in the Age of Revolution 10. The Decade prior to the Greek Revolution: A Black Hole in Ottoman History 11. The Serbian, Greek and Romanian Revolutions in Comparison Part IV: Revolutionary Waves in the Greek World I 12. From the Revolts to the Greek Revolution: Economic-Political Realities and Ideological Visions among the Greeks (End of the Eighteenth C.-1821) 13. The vigilant eye of the Revolution: Public security and police in revolutionary Greece Part V: Revolutionary Waves in the Greek World II 14. Internal conflicts and civil strife in the Serbian and the Greek Revolution: a comparison 15. The Sea and Nation-building: Between a privately-owned merchant fleet and a revolutionary National Navy, 1821-1827 16. Economy and Politics in the Correspondence of the Neapolitan Consuls in Greece Part VI: Aspirations of freedom in the Greek World 17. The vision of the rebellious Greeks for a democratic and liberal state: the Constitutions of the Greek revolution 18. Ideals of Freedom in the Greek Revolution and the Political Discourse of Modernity
About the author
Paschalis M. Kitromilides is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Athens and a member of the Academy of Athens, where he holds the chair of the History of Political Thought.
Summary
This book brings together twenty-one scholars and a host of original ideas, revisionist arguments, and new information to mark the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution of 1821. It will appeal to scholars and students of the Age of Revolution, transnational history, political theory and constitutional law.
