The Making of Modern Greece: Nationalism, Romanticism, and the Uses of the Past (1797–1896)Routledge, 2016 M03 3 - 284 pages Every Greek and every friend of the country knows the date 1821, when the banner of revolution was raised against the empire of the Ottoman Turks, and the story of 'Modern Greece' is usually said to begin. Less well known, but of even greater importance, was the international recognition given to Greece as an independent state with full sovereign rights, as early as 1830. This places Greece in the vanguard among the new nation-states of Europe whose emergence would gather momentum through to the early twentieth century, a process whose repercussions continue to this day. Starting out from that perspective, which has been all but ignored until now, this book brings together the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore the contribution of characteristically nineteenth-century European modes of thought to the 'making' of Greece as a modern nation. Closely linked to nationalism is romanticism, which exercised a formative role through imaginative literature, as is demonstrated in several chapters on poetry and fiction. Under the broad heading 'uses of the past', other chapters consider ways in which the legacies, first of ancient Greece, then later of Byzantium, came to be mobilized in the construction of a durable national identity at once 'Greek' and 'modern'. The Making of Modern Greece aims to situate the Greek experience, as never before, within the broad context of current theoretical and historical thinking about nations and nationalism in the modern world. The book spans the period from 1797, when Rigas Velestinlis published a constitution for an imaginary 'Hellenic Republic', at the cost of his life, to the establishment of the modern Olympic Games, in Athens in 1896, an occasion which sealed with international approval the hard-won self-image of 'Modern Greece' as it had become established over the previous century. |
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... Uses of the Past (1797–1896) David Ricks Roderick Beaton. Theodoros Vryzakis (1814–1878), Υπέρ πατρίδος το παν, oil on canvas, 1858. Known in English as 'Grateful Greece'. National Gallery, Athens. Reproduced with permission.
... Uses of the Past (1797–1896) David Ricks Roderick Beaton. Theodoros Vryzakis (1814–1878), Υπέρ πατρίδος το παν, oil on canvas, 1858. Known in English as 'Grateful Greece'. National Gallery, Athens. Reproduced with permission.
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... Athens. Again in common with many of the preceding volumes, the book has, during the course of preparation, taken on a life and identity of its own, in significant respects different from those of the original conference. It is ...
... Athens. Again in common with many of the preceding volumes, the book has, during the course of preparation, taken on a life and identity of its own, in significant respects different from those of the original conference. It is ...
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... (Athens). She is co-editor, with Michael Llewellyn Smith and Paschalis M. Kitromilides, of Scholars, travels, archives: Greek history and culture through the British School at Athens (2009) and has published on the history of nineteenth ...
... (Athens). She is co-editor, with Michael Llewellyn Smith and Paschalis M. Kitromilides, of Scholars, travels, archives: Greek history and culture through the British School at Athens (2009) and has published on the history of nineteenth ...
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... Athens. He studied at the universities of Crete and Athens, received his doctorate from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and has taught modern European and Greek history at the University of the Peloponnese. He is ...
... Athens. He studied at the universities of Crete and Athens, received his doctorate from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and has taught modern European and Greek history at the University of the Peloponnese. He is ...
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... Athens, and is currently working on the life and times of Eleftherios Venizelos. He is a Vice President of the British School at Athens. Peter Mackridge is Professor Emeritus of Modern Greek at the University of Oxford and a visiting ...
... Athens, and is currently working on the life and times of Eleftherios Venizelos. He is a Vice President of the British School at Athens. Peter Mackridge is Professor Emeritus of Modern Greek at the University of Oxford and a visiting ...
Contents
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The View From The Early twentyfirstCentury | 19 |
Greek Western Perspectives | 51 |
religion the nation state | 79 |
insiders vs outsiders | 107 |
politics society in the ionian islands | 149 |
Part VI Language national identity | 175 |
Part VII The nation in the literary imagination | 199 |
Afterword | 259 |
Index | 263 |
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