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The Making of Modern Greece: Nationalism, Romanticism, and the Uses of the Past (1797-1896) by Beaton, Roderick & Ricks, David - 2009
by Beaton, Roderick & Ricks, David
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The Making of Modern Greece: Nationalism, Romanticism, and the Uses of the Past (1797-1896)
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London: Ashgate Publishing Group, 2009 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 19th.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. Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question. 1st UK Edition.. Hardcover. New from Publisher.
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- ISBN 10 0754664988
- ISBN 13 9780754664987
- Publisher Ashgate Publishing Group
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 2009
- Keywords GREECE MODERN HISTORY WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
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The Making of Modern Greece: Nationalism, Romanticism, and the Uses of the Past 1797-1896
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