The Greek Revolution and Empires: France and the Greeks, 1797–1830
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The Greek Revolution and Empires: France and the Greeks, 1797–1830
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December 2020
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All the lines of historical development zigzag and we try to make them straight. What do we really call this country before it became Greece? In the 1840s it was understood that this nation, which today is an indisputable reality, was a Babel. But if we accept that it was Babel after the revolution, what was 1800? And what does this mean for 1821? Nations have not always existed. Greece was founded perhaps as the first nation-state, the territory of which was determined by the people rather than a monarch or the state itself. The central goal of this book is to show that many Greeces were possible, that for specific historical reasons some choices were made to the detriment of others, the nation took some forms and instead of others. The explanation lies largely in the encounter of the Greeks and other peoples of the region with European powers, and primarily France – initially democratic and later imperial – which reached the shores of the Balkans during the Napoleonic era and who in fact have never left.
(Edited and translated blurb from publisher’s website)
(Edited and translated blurb from publisher’s website)
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