The Greek War of Independence : Impact, Perceptions, and Transformation Within and Beyond the Empire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamprou, Alexandros.

Contributor:

Christofis, Nikos, 1981- editor.

Lamprou, Alexandros, editor.

Moiras, Leōnidas, 1978- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greece--History--War of Independence, 1821-1829.

Greece.

Greece--History--War of Independence, 1821-1829--Historiography.

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

"The Greek Revolution of 1821 was not merely a national uprising-it was a transnational event that reshaped the Eastern Mediterranean and reverberated across the globe. Moving beyond traditional nationalist historiography, this study draws on recent transnational and Ottoman-centered scholarship to examine how diaspora networks, European Philhellenes, and great power rivalries transformed a regional revolt into an international cause. The Ottoman context is treated not as a passive or declining backdrop, but as a dynamic, multiethnic polity grappling with reform, resistance, and the challenges of maintaining imperial cohesion. Drawing on multilingual and cross-regional sources, the Contributors explore how the Revolution was perceived, contested, and reshaped across diverse cultural and political spaces, embedding 1821 within the broader currents of nineteenth-century revolution, diplomacy, and state formation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Leonidas Moiras and Nikos Christofis

Ottoman and Turkish perceptions of the Greek Revolution / Leonidas Moiras and Alexandros Lamprou

Cyprus and the Greek Revolution of 1821 : narrating and constructing the past / Nikos Christofis

Albanian national narratives and "interbalkanism" : centres and visions of the "Greek" in the nineteenth century / Elias G. Skoulidas

The question of the elites in the historiography of the 1821 Greek revolution / Dimitris Stamatopoulos

The Greek independence war, Ottoman citizenship, and military conscription : the story of a vicious circle / Erik-Jan Zürcher

From the Nile to Navarino : the Greek Revolution in the Egyptian historiography / Panos Kourgiotis

Across the Aegean : Muslim migration from the Morea during the Greek war of Independence / Hilal Cemile Tümer

American Protestant missionaries and the Greek Revolution / Elmira Vasileva

Russian liberalism and the revolutions of 1820s : the Greek 1821 / Ada Dialla

The Greeks and transnational political policing in Europe during the age of revolutions / Christos Aliprantis

The war of the Ottoman Empire against Iran in 1821 and its consequences for the Greek Revolution / Mohammed Shariat-Panahi

"'Every single verse seems to be speaking to the contemporary Chinese" : perceptions of the Greek Revolution of 1821 in Japan and China / Egas Moniz Bandeira

Afterword / Christine Philliou.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-83695-424-7

OCLC:

1572419880