The Greek Revolution in the Age of Revolutions (1776-1848): Reappraisals and Comparisons

ISBN-13: 9781032053660 / Angielski

Paschalis M. Kitromilides

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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 ΙΙ  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

O autorze

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.