The purpose of this edited volume, The Greek Revolution in the Age of Revolutions (1776-1848), is to demonstrate the significance of the Greek liberation struggle to international history, and to highlight how it was a turning point that signalled the revival of revolution in Europe after the defeat of the French Revolution in 1815. It argues that the sacrifices of rebellious Greeks paved the way for other resistance movements in European politics, culminating in the ‘spring of European peoples’ in 1848. Richly researched and innovative in approach, this volume also considers the diplomatic and transnational aspects of the insurrection, and examines hitherto unexplored dimensions of revolutionary change in the Greek world.
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Paschalis Kitromilides is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Athens and a member of the Academy of Athens, where he holds the chair of the History of Political Thought. He has held visiting appointments at Harvard and Brandeis Universities, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the European University Institute and the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies Villa I Tatti, as well as director of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies at Harvard. The author of more than fifty books and two hundred and sixty articles, his works have been published in Russian, Romanian, Serbian, and Bulgarian as well as English and Greek.
John Hutchinson has authored and edited eleven books in the field of Nationalism, including The Dynamics of Cultural Nationalism (1987), Modern Nationalism (1994) and Nations as Zones of Conflict (2005) and Nationalism and War (2017), which was nominated for the ENMISA book prize and the Hedley Bull Book Prize in International Relations. He is currently Vice-President of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism and Co-Editor-in Chief of Nations and Nationalism.
Athena Leoussi is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Reading. She is a founder of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism and a founding editor of Nations and Nationalism. She has been Visiting Senior Fellow in the Government Department, at the LSE. Her research and publications address the history, theories, and problems of nationalism and national identity; the comparative study of national cultures and cultural transfers in the 19th and 20th centuries; the role of art in the construction of national identities; and the connection between the European Graeco-Roman, Classical Tradition and Racism/Antisemitism. She sits on the Advisory Board of NISE (National Movements and Intermediary Structures in Europe). She organised, together with Ian Jenkins, the British Museum exhibition, 'Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art'.
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