The Greek Revolution of 1821 was not merely a national uprising—it was a transnational event that reshaped the Eastern Mediterranean and reverberated across the globe. Moving beyond traditional nationalist historiography, this study draws on recent transnational and Ottoman-centered scholarship to examine how diaspora networks, European Philhellenes, and great power rivalries transformed a regional revolt into an international cause. The Ottoman context is treated not as a passive or declining backdrop, but as a dynamic, multiethnic polity grappling with reform, resistance, and the challenges of maintaining imperial cohesion. Drawing on multilingual and cross-regional sources, the Contributors explore how the Revolution was perceived, contested, and reshaped across diverse cultural and political spaces, embedding 1821 within the broader currents of nineteenth-century revolution, diplomacy, and state formation.
The Greek Revolution of 1821 reshaped the Eastern Mediterranean and reverberated across the globe. Moving beyond traditional nationalist historiography, this study draws on recent transnational and Ottoman-centered scholarship to examine how diaspora networks, European Philhellenes, and great power rivalries transformed a regional revolt into an international cause.
- Sheds not only additional, but necessary, light on understudied aspects of the Greek Revolution.
- Places the Greek Revolution within both an Ottoman and European and, also, a larger historical and historiographical context.
- Examines the impact the Greek Revolution had in diverse case studies from the Balkans, Europe, and Asia.
Arvustused
It is a very original and useful book that highlights the impact of the Greek War of Independence both in the immediate Balkan region and as far as distant China and Japan. The authors make use of very different sources and archives in various languages, which is quite rare for studies on the Greek Revolution. The multifaceted narrative shows the broader dimensions of the event and places it in the perspective of global history. Anna Karakatsouli, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Leonidas Moiras and Nikos Christofis
Part I: Historiographical Approaches of the Greek Revolution
Chapter
1. Ottoman and Turkish Perceptions of the Greek Revolution and Greek
Irredentism
Leonidas Moiras and Alexandros Lamprou
Chapter
2. Cyprus and the Greek Revolution of 1821: Narrating and
Constructing the Past
Nikos Christofis
Chapter
3. Albanian National Narratives and Interbalkanisms: Centers and
Visions of the Greek in the Nineteenth Century
Elias G. Skoulidas
Chapter
4. The Question of the Elites in the Historiography of the 1821
Greek Revolution
Dimitris Stamatopoulos
Part II: The Greek Revolution in the Ottoman Context
Chapter
5. The Greek Independence War, Ottoman Citizenship, and Military
Conscription: The Story of a Vicious Circle
Erik-Jan Zürcher
Chapter
6. From the Nile to Navarino: The Greek Revolution in the Egyptian
Historiography
Panos Kourgiotis
Chapter
7. Across the Aegean: Muslim Migration from the Morea during the
Greek War of Independence
Hilal Cemile Tümer
Part III: The Global Impact of the Greek Revolution
Chapter
8. American Protestant Missionaries and the Greek Revolution
Elmira Vasileva
Chapter
9. Russian Liberalism and the Revolutions of the 1820s: The Greek
1821
Ada Dialla
Chapter
10. The Greeks and Transnational Political Policing in Europe during
the Age of Revolutions
Christos Aliprantis
Chapter
11. The Ottoman-Iranian Enmity and the Greek War of Independence
Mohammed Shariat-Panahi
Chapter
12. Every Single Verse Seems to Be Speaking to the Contemporary
Chinese: Perceptions of the Greek Revolution of 1821 in Japan and China
Egas Moniz Bandeira
Afterword: Beginnings, the End, and an Apology: A 1619 Project for Greece
Christine Philliou
Index
Alexandros Lamprou holds a PhD in Turkish history from Leiden University and is currently a lecturer at the University of the Aegean in Greece. He has taught Turkish and Greek history at different universities in Greece, Turkey, and Germany. His research interests include state-society relations, anti-minority campaigns, and the historiography of the early republican period in Turkey. His current research project focuses on Greek refugees in the Middle East and Africa during World War II.
