Understanding the Greek Revolution (18211832) (Paperback)

The Greek Revolution remains a neglected episode in the revolutionary history of the insurrectionary wave of the 1820s. This volume collects the most recent research concerning the social, political and cultural history of this major event.

Bringing together specialists in social, intellectual and cultural history, the volume adopts a broader temporal and spatial perspective than most existing analyses. Juxtaposing the views from without and within the Ottoman Empire, the authors reconsider the dialectics of social transformation and revolution and overcome simplistic dichotomies between structural continuities and conjectural ruptures, international context and internal conflicts, social and political aspects, and central state and local power-holders, putting the Greek Revolution squarely back on the agenda of Marxist and revolutionary historiography.

Contributors include: Zacharias Antonakis, Dimitris Bacharas, Athanasios Barlagiannis, Simos Bozikis, Aliki Fakoura, Şükrü Ilicak, Elias Kolovos, Phokion Kotzageorgis, Dimitris Kousouris, Dimitris Papastamatiou, Nikos Rotzokos, Mohammet Shariat-Panahi, Panagiotis Stathis, Panagiotis Sotiris, Dionysis Tzakis, and Eleftheria Zei.

Elias Kolovos is Associate Professor in Ottoman History at the University of Crete. He has written, edited, and coedited books and papers on Ottoman History, including Across the Aegean: Islands, Monasteries and Rural Societies in the Ottoman Greek Lands (The Isis Press 2018).

Dimitris Kousouris is Researcher in the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has written and co-edited articles, books and collective volumes in Modern and Contemporary History. His most recent book is: “Sira Nostra Patria”. The Latins of the Archipelago Between Empire and Nation-State (Berghahn 2022).