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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... Revolution against Ottoman rule can be seen as the earliest of the national revolutions of Europe (not excluding even the French) to be fully successful in achieving its aims, in the sense of establishing a lasting new polity based on ...
... Revolution against Ottoman rule can be seen as the earliest of the national revolutions of Europe (not excluding even the French) to be fully successful in achieving its aims, in the sense of establishing a lasting new polity based on ...
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... revolution of 1821, from perhaps as early as the 1790s, the proponents of Greek independence had established a powerful and pervasive rhetoric: the present-day inhabitants of the land that had once been known as Hellas were the children ...
... revolution of 1821, from perhaps as early as the 1790s, the proponents of Greek independence had established a powerful and pervasive rhetoric: the present-day inhabitants of the land that had once been known as Hellas were the children ...
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... Revolution, in January 1822, at almost the same time as Shelley's Hellas was published in England, the first Provisional Constitution for the embryo state would adopt for its citizens the ancient name of 'Hellenes';5 this is how they ...
... Revolution, in January 1822, at almost the same time as Shelley's Hellas was published in England, the first Provisional Constitution for the embryo state would adopt for its citizens the ancient name of 'Hellenes';5 this is how they ...
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... Revolution (1978), has been published only in Greek translation (1996). Among many publications in English, especially relevant to the subject of the present book is Kitromilides 1998. 13 See Lambropoulos 1988; Leontis 1995; Gourgouris ...
... Revolution (1978), has been published only in Greek translation (1996). Among many publications in English, especially relevant to the subject of the present book is Kitromilides 1998. 13 See Lambropoulos 1988; Leontis 1995; Gourgouris ...
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... revolutions in America and France.17 Greek exceptionalism may still lie beyond the pale for 'ethno-symbolists' in the first decade of the twenty-first century, but Smith himself has suggested the ground for a possible rapprochement: 16 ...
... revolutions in America and France.17 Greek exceptionalism may still lie beyond the pale for 'ethno-symbolists' in the first decade of the twenty-first century, but Smith himself has suggested the ground for a possible rapprochement: 16 ...
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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