Europe under revolt, 1820-21: The western European movements and the beginning of the Greek Revolution
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Europe under revolt, 1820-21: The western European movements and the beginning of the Greek Revolution
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2021
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Two hundred years ago, the idea of freedom, inherited from the French Revolution, had been suppressed by the Restoration, but the political conspiracy was growing, emerging as a threat to tyrants in Spain and the Italian Peninsula. The same revolutionary idea had followed a similar course in the Balkan Peninsula, provoking, almost at the same time, the uprising of the subjugated Greeks against the Ottoman tyrant.
This study exposes the generally unknown course of the movements of 1820-21 in Italy and Iberia, with an emphasis on their interactions and their relationship to the momentum of the Greek uprising. Most of all, however, the author is concerned with the degree to which the rebellious ethnicity of the Ottoman Empire, of a religious-centred, pro-Russian orientation and radical aspirations, was influenced by the spirit of European liberalism.
It thus examines the attitude of the generation of the Greek Revolution towards the Western European movements, as reflected in the “histories” and “memoirs” of its important representatives, and leads to interesting conclusions about the Greek receptions of the revolutionary spirit of the West in the critical period of the preparation and of the outbreak of the first great Revolution of the 19th century.
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This study exposes the generally unknown course of the movements of 1820-21 in Italy and Iberia, with an emphasis on their interactions and their relationship to the momentum of the Greek uprising. Most of all, however, the author is concerned with the degree to which the rebellious ethnicity of the Ottoman Empire, of a religious-centred, pro-Russian orientation and radical aspirations, was influenced by the spirit of European liberalism.
It thus examines the attitude of the generation of the Greek Revolution towards the Western European movements, as reflected in the “histories” and “memoirs” of its important representatives, and leads to interesting conclusions about the Greek receptions of the revolutionary spirit of the West in the critical period of the preparation and of the outbreak of the first great Revolution of the 19th century.
(Edited and translated blurb from publisher’s website)
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