The Making of Modern Greece
The Making of Modern Greece (Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London) Roderick Beaton and David Ricks, Roderick Beaton (Editor), David Ricks (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate
ISBN: 0754664988
DDC: 949
Edition: Hardcover; 2009-04-01
Summary:
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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