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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... Late Roman Republic. Socrates D. Petmezas is Associate Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Crete and a member of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation of Research and Technology (FORTH). He ...
... Late Roman Republic. Socrates D. Petmezas is Associate Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Crete and a member of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation of Research and Technology (FORTH). He ...
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... Greek translation, made as late as 1872, was revised and re-published in 1982. On the reception of this work in Greece see Veloudis 1982. 6 7 at first, but with devastating and long-lasting impact, Greek intellectuals 4 RodeRick BeaToN.
... Greek translation, made as late as 1872, was revised and re-published in 1982. On the reception of this work in Greece see Veloudis 1982. 6 7 at first, but with devastating and long-lasting impact, Greek intellectuals 4 RodeRick BeaToN.
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... late Elli Skopetea (1988), matched by the new, historically grounded account of Greek Romanticism by Alexis Politis (1993). New periodicals, such as istor and Historein, founded respectively in 1990 and 1999, have provided a forum in ...
... late Elli Skopetea (1988), matched by the new, historically grounded account of Greek Romanticism by Alexis Politis (1993). New periodicals, such as istor and Historein, founded respectively in 1990 and 1999, have provided a forum in ...
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... late as 1983, Ernest Gellner, one of its main proponents, could reiterate the essence of the 'modernist' paradigm: 'Nationalism is not the awakening of an old, latent, dormant force, though that is how it does indeed present itself. It ...
... late as 1983, Ernest Gellner, one of its main proponents, could reiterate the essence of the 'modernist' paradigm: 'Nationalism is not the awakening of an old, latent, dormant force, though that is how it does indeed present itself. It ...
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... late eighteenth, a position incompatible with strict 'modernism'. See Xydis 1969; Geanakoplos 1976; Zakythinos 1976 (whose English title foreshadows that of the present book, although in an entirely different context). Even today, the ...
... late eighteenth, a position incompatible with strict 'modernism'. See Xydis 1969; Geanakoplos 1976; Zakythinos 1976 (whose English title foreshadows that of the present book, although in an entirely different context). Even today, the ...
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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