Understanding the Greek Revolution (1821-1832)

New Approaches in Social, Political and Cultural History
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-70094-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 319, 295 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

A part of the insurrectionary wave of the 1820s, the Greek Revolution remains a neglected episode in the revolutionary history of the period. The contributions included in this volume present the most recent research concerning the social, political and cultural history of this major event. Bringing together specialists in social, intellectual and cultural history, the volume adopts a broader temporal and spatial perspective than most existing analyses. Juxtaposing the views from without and within the Ottoman Empire, the authors reconsider the dialectics of social transformation and revolution and overcome simplistic dichotomies between structural continuities and conjectural ruptures, international context and internal conflicts, social and political aspects, and central state and local power-holders, putting the Greek Revolution squarely back on the agenda of Marxist and revolutionary historiography.

Contributors are: Zacharias Antonakis, Dimitris Bacharas, Athanasios Barlagiannis, Simos Bozikis, Aliki Fakoura, Sükrü Ilicak, Elias Kolovos, Phokion Kotzageorgis, Dimitris Kousouris, Dimitris Papastamatiou, Nikos Rotzokos, Mohammet Shariat-Panahi, Panagiotis Stathis, Panagiotis Sotiris, Dionysis Tzakis, and Eleftheria Zei.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kolovos, Elias

Kousouris, Dimitris

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Chronology

Introduction: The Greek Revolution of 1821 in the Age of Revolutions

Historiographical Debates and New Research

Elias Kolovos and Dimitris Kousouris

Theoretical Debate: Revisiting a ‘Bourgeois Revolution’

The Greek Left and the Challenge of Theorising ‘1821’

Panagiotis Sotiris

Part1 The Ottoman Context of the Greek Revolution

1 ‘Inciting the Rum Milleti to Rise Up’

The Outbreak of the Greek Revolution of 1821 according to the Ottoman Sources

Elias Kolovos, H.Sükrü Ilicak and Mohamet Shariat-Panahi

2 Salonica in the Revolutionary Conjuncture of 1821

PhokionP. Kotzageorgis

3 Post-revolutionary Salonica and Its Environs

Penal Policies, Precautionary Steps and Institutionalised Rewards in the Aftermath of the Revolt

Dimitris Papastamatiou

Part2 Times of Transition: Continuity and Rupture

4 The Developing Idea of Liberation in the Course of the Greek National Movement in the Early Nineteenth Century

The Case of Christophoros Perraivos

Nikos Rotzokos

5 The Greek Revolution in the Morea

Economies, Societies, and Cultures

Aliki Fakoura

6 Alliances, Factions and Political Practices of the Moreot Notables before and during the Greek Revolution

The Cases of the Kanakaris-Roufos, Peroukas and Charalambis Families

Dimitris Bacharas

Part3 The Dynamics of Modernisation

7 Irregular Warfare in the Greek Revolution of 1821

Klephtic or Partisan Warfare?

Dionysis Tzakis

8 Disciplining the Armies

Military Medicine during the Greek Revolution (1821–31)

Athanasios Barlagiannis

9 Economy and Power in the Greek Revolution

Public Revenues, Powerful Entities and State Formation

Simos Bozikis

10 Athens and Athenian Politics during the Greek Revolution

ZachariasD. Antonakis

Part4 Contested Lands, Shared Sovereignties

11 The 1821 Greek Revolution in Central Greece

The Catalytic Role of the Military Confrontation between Tepedelenli Ali Pasha and the Sublime Porte

Panagiotis Stathis

12 The Catholics of Syros between Empire and Nation (1821–32)

Dimitris Kousouris

13 New Perspectives in Local Politics before and during the Greek Revolution

Consular Institutions in the Greek Archipelago (Late Eighteenth–Early Nineteenth Century)

Eleftheria Zei

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elias Kolovos is Associate Professor in Ottoman History at the University of Crete. He has written, edited, and coedited books and papers on Ottoman History, including Across the Aegean: Islands, Monasteries and Rural Societies in the Ottoman Greek Lands (The Isis Press 2018).

Dimitris Kousouris is Researcher in the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has written and co-edited articles, books and collective volumes in Modern and Contemporary History. His most recent book is: “Sira Nostra Patria”. The Latins of the Archipelago Between Empire and Nation-State (Berghahn 2022).