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The Making of Modern Greece - Nationalism, Romanticism, and the Uses of the Past (1797-1896) (Paperback)
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The Making of Modern Greece - Nationalism, Romanticism, and the Uses of the Past (1797-1896) (Paperback)
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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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