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Europe and the world in the first half of the nineteenth century

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Europe and the world in the first half of the nineteenth century

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17 February 2021

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"The Greek Revolution of 1821 broke out at a time when the principles of the Vienna Conference had been imposed on Europe and the will of the Holy Alliance in force. After the final defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815, and the restoration of legitimate dynasties to their thrones, liberal ideas and their institutions were persecuted throughout Europe, and the French Revolution was considered an unfortunate break in the authoritarian rule of the peoples. In the implementation of the authoritarian policy of the Holy Alliance of Russia, Austria and Prussia, the reactions were many and the most intense attempts to shake off the conservative grid of power took place in the countries of the Mediterranean South, in Spain and Italy in 1820. The Greek uprising against Ottoman rule – which followed a few months later – was considered traditionally and for a long time as a special case of a national revolution for independence from an alien tyrant, cut off from the wave of European liberal claims. It was connected with modern European ideas through the modern Greek Enlightenment, but in the study of the military and political events of the revolution the national element was overemphasised while the connection with its modern subversive effervescence on both sides of the Atlantic was ignored.

Recent research, however, now considers the Greek Revolution as an event of world history. In 1821, as we will show, it is inscribed in the Age of Revolutions that began with the American Revolution in 1775 and can be extended to 1848. The political and economic processes that shape the early globalisation of the early 19th century and led humanity to in the modern era with new, colonial-type balances, find an impact on the events unfolding in the Ottoman Empire. Here we will be concerned with this global crisis of the ancien régime and its multilevel connection with the Greek struggle for independence."

From the book of abstracts of the series of events, on the organizer's website. Edited for clarity.

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https://youtu.be/Ek198gj_ze8
https://2021.uoa.gr/fileadmin/depts/uoa.gr/2021/uploads/Omilies_23421.pdf
https://2021.uoa.gr/anakoinoseis_kai_ekdiloseis/proboli_ekdilosis/21_omilies_gia_to_21/

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01:22:00

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BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

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