The Greek Revolution : 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe

Mark Mazower

ISBN 10: 0143110934 / ISBN 13: 9780143110934

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group Nov 2022, 2022

Beschreibung

Neuware - Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Named a top history book of the year by The EconomistFrom one of our leading historians, the definitive history of the Greek War of Independence The Greek War of Independence was an unlikely cause, a disorganized collection of Greek patriots up against what was still one of the most storied empires in the world, the Ottomans. The revolutionaries needed all the help they could get. And they got it, as Europeans and Americans embraced the idea that the heirs to ancient Greece, the wellspring of Western civilization, were fighting for their freedom against the proverbial Eastern despot, the Turkish sultan. Mazower does full justice to the more complicated reality on the ground, as a revolutionary conspiracy triggered outright rebellion. By the time the dust settled, Greece was free, and Europe was changed forever. It was a victory fora completely new kind of politics international in its range and affiliations, popular in its origins, romantic in its sentiments, and radical in its goals. The Greek War of Independence was the first war in which a people claimed liberty for themselves and overthrew an entire empire to attain it, inaugurating a new world of nation-states, the world in which we still live.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780143110934

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Greek Revolution : 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group Nov 2022
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0143110934
• ISBN-13: 9780143110934
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 212B x 138 H x 35 T Millimeter Breite: 212 mm, Höhe: 138 mm, Tiefe: 35 mm
• Gewicht: 574 Gramm

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Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize • Named a top history book of the year by The Economist

From one of our leading historians, the definitive history of the Greek War of Independence

The Greek War of Independence was an unlikely cause, a disorganized collection of Greek patriots up against what was still one of the most storied empires in the world, the Ottomans. The revolutionaries needed all the help they could get. And they got it, as Europeans and Americans embraced the idea that the heirs to ancient Greece, the wellspring of Western civilization, were fighting for their freedom against the proverbial Eastern despot, the Turkish sultan.

Mazower does full justice to the more complicated reality on the ground, as a revolutionary conspiracy triggered outright rebellion. By the time the dust settled, Greece was free, and Europe was changed forever. It was a victory fora completely new kind of politics—international in its range and affiliations, popular in its origins, romantic in its sentiments, and radical in its goals. The Greek War of Independence was the first war in which a people claimed liberty for themselves and overthrew an entire empire to attain it, inaugurating a new world of nation-states, the world in which we still live.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mark Mazower is the Ira D. Wallach Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the author of Hitler’s Empire and The Balkans: A Short History, winner of the Wolfson Prize for History, among other books. He lives in New York City.