History's Spoiled Children is the story of a small Ottoman province
and its transformation into a modern European state. In some
respects, the challenges to the formation of the Greek state could
be likened to those encountered by the Western world in its efforts
to impose its politico-cultural model on societies foreign to it.
Though the Greeks of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were
Christians whereas the societies subject to Western experimentation
today are Muslim, the political venture known as modernisation has
treated both as civilising projects and in no way as equal
partners.However, there is one distinction that cannot be ignored.
Western Europeans regard Greece and Greeks as foundational in their
own history. With this in mind, one may better understand the
West's (more or less) particular treatment of these populations,
which not only rebelled against the Ottoman Empire in the name of
Christianity but also invoked connections to an ancient past in
which Europe sees the roots of its own identity.Kostas Kostis
explores this perception and traces the formation of this favoured
modern nation, dubbed in nineteenth-century Europe the 'spoiled
children of history.'
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