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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... religion & the nation state 6. From resurrection to insurrection: 'sacred' myths, motifs, and symbols in the Greek War of Independence Marios Hatzopoulos 7. Revisiting religion and nationalism in nineteenth-century Greece Effi Gazi 81 ...
... religion & the nation state 6. From resurrection to insurrection: 'sacred' myths, motifs, and symbols in the Greek War of Independence Marios Hatzopoulos 7. Revisiting religion and nationalism in nineteenth-century Greece Effi Gazi 81 ...
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... religion. From The Making of Modern Greece: Nationalism, Romanticism, & the Uses of the Past (1797– 1896) ed. Roderick Beaton and David Ricks. Copyright © 2009 by Roderick Beaton and David Ricks. Published by Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Wey ...
... religion. From The Making of Modern Greece: Nationalism, Romanticism, & the Uses of the Past (1797– 1896) ed. Roderick Beaton and David Ricks. Copyright © 2009 by Roderick Beaton and David Ricks. Published by Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Wey ...
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... religion, empire and scholarship. Margarita Miliori currently lives and works in Athens as an independent researcher and translator. She has published a number of articles in Greek and international journals on Philhellenism, nineteenth ...
... religion, empire and scholarship. Margarita Miliori currently lives and works in Athens as an independent researcher and translator. She has published a number of articles in Greek and international journals on Philhellenism, nineteenth ...
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... religion, our arts have their root in Greece. [...] The modern Greek is the descendant of those glorious beings whom the imagination almost refuses to figure to itself as belonging to our kind, and he inherits much of their sensibility ...
... religion, our arts have their root in Greece. [...] The modern Greek is the descendant of those glorious beings whom the imagination almost refuses to figure to itself as belonging to our kind, and he inherits much of their sensibility ...
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... religious experience and institutions (Smith 2003), and also with that of a concerted band of medievalists who have sought to extend the prehistory of nations far back beyond the conventional start-date of the Enlightenment or the ...
... religious experience and institutions (Smith 2003), and also with that of a concerted band of medievalists who have sought to extend the prehistory of nations far back beyond the conventional start-date of the Enlightenment or 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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