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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... argument was expressed in its most extreme form by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, in the preface to his verse drama Hellas, written in immediate response to the outbreak of the revolution in Greece: The apathy of the rulers of the ...
... argument was expressed in its most extreme form by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, in the preface to his verse drama Hellas, written in immediate response to the outbreak of the revolution in Greece: The apathy of the rulers of the ...
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... argued, from contrasting viewpoints, by Herzfeld (1987) and Just (2009). In general, anthropological studies, being ... arguments about its validity, but rather in the remarkable success of Greeks and their supporters, since the 1820s ...
... argued, from contrasting viewpoints, by Herzfeld (1987) and Just (2009). In general, anthropological studies, being ... arguments about its validity, but rather in the remarkable success of Greeks and their supporters, since the 1820s ...
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... argument see 2006, 58). The possibility that the Greek-language periodical ermis o Logios, published in Vienna, may have functioned as the channel through which Herder's ideas filtered through to Korais, in Paris, is proposed by Xydis ...
... argument see 2006, 58). The possibility that the Greek-language periodical ermis o Logios, published in Vienna, may have functioned as the channel through which Herder's ideas filtered through to Korais, in Paris, is proposed by Xydis ...
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... arguments advanced in this introduction and by Kitromilides in the first chapter, in that they sound sensible warnings about the limits to such comparability. The remainder of the book, while by no means eschewing the comparative ...
... arguments advanced in this introduction and by Kitromilides in the first chapter, in that they sound sensible warnings about the limits to such comparability. The remainder of the book, while by no means eschewing the comparative ...
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... arguing that the most thoroughgoing pursuit of a national language was carried on outside the Greek state, by individuals who in one way or another could be said to have been more at home among the Diaspora. If nations are to be ...
... arguing that the most thoroughgoing pursuit of a national language was carried on outside the Greek state, by individuals who in one way or another could be said to have been more at home among the Diaspora. If nations are to be ...
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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