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Europe -- History -- 1815-1848.
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Mazower, Mark.
Greece -- History -- War of Independence, 1821-1829.
Europe -- History -- 1815-1848.
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The Greek revolution : 1821 and the making of modern Europe / Mark Mazower.
by
Mazower, Mark.
Penguin Books, 2022.
Call #:
949.506 M476g
Subjects
Greece
-- History --
War
of
Independence
,
1821-1829
.
Europe -- History -- 1815-1848.
ISBN:
9780143110934 (lib. bdg.)
Description:
xl, 567 p. : ill. , maps ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Mark Mazower is the Ira D. Wallach Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the author of Hitler’s Empire and The Balkans: A Short History, winner of the Wolfson Prize for History, among other books. He lives in New York City.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-541) and index.
Summary:
"As Mark Mazower shows us in his enthralling and definitive new history, myths about the Greek
War
of
Independence
outpaced the facts from the very beginning, and for good reason. This was an unlikely cause, against long odds, a ragtag collection of Greek patriots up against what was still one of the most formidable empires in the world, the Ottomans. The revolutionaries needed all the help they could get. And they got it as Europeans and Americans embraced the idea that the heirs to ancient
Greece
, the wellspring of Western civilization, were fighting for their freedom against the proverbial Eastern despot, the Turkish sultan. This was Christianity versus Islam, now given urgency by new ideas about the nation-state, and democracy, that were shaking up the old order. Lord Byron is only the most famous of the combatants who went to
Greece
to fight and die--many more followed events passionately and supported the cause through art, music, and humanitarian aid. To many who did go, it was a rude awakening to find that the Greeks were a far cry from their illustrious forebears, and were often hard to tell apart from the Ottomans. Mazower does full justice to the realities on the ground as a revolutionary conspiracy triggered outright rebellion, and a shambolic and distracted Ottoman leadership first missed the plot and then overreacted disastrously. He shows how and why ethnic cleansing commenced almost immediately on both sides. By the time the dust settled,
Greece
was free, and Europe was changed forever. It was a victory for a completely new kind of politics--international in its range and affiliations, popular in its origins, romantic in sentiment, and radical in its goals. It was here on the very edge of Europe that the first successful revolution took place in which a people claimed liberty for themselves and overthrew an entire empire to attain it, transforming diplomatic norms and the direction of European politics forever. This new world of nation-states is the world in which we still live. Mark Mazower's reckoning with its birth pangs in
Greece
is a masterpiece of the historian's art."--From publisher.
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