The Greek Revolution

A Critical Dictionary

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Foreword [Prokopios Pavlopoulos, former President of the Hellenic Republic]
Introduction: In an Age of Revolution [Paschalis M. Kitromilides]
I. Contexts
- Balkan Hinterlands: The Danubian Principalities [Andrei Pippidi]
- Balkan Hinterlands: The South Slavic Lands [Slobodan G. Marković]
- Diasporas and Homelands [Mathieu Grenet]
- Ottoman Context [H. Şükrü Ilıcak]
II. On the Way to Revolution
- Communities [Vaso Seirinidou]
- Forms of Resistance [Vasilis Molos]
- Secret Societies: The Society of Friends and Its Forerunners [Constantinos C. Chatzopoulos]
III. Events and Places
- Aegean Islands and the Revolution at Sea [Katerina Galani and Gelina Harlaftis]
- Asia Minor [Stavros Th. Anestidis]
- Athens [Maria D. Efthymiou]
- Chios [Christos Landros]
- Constantinople and Thrace [Stavros Th. Anestidis]
- Crete [Paschalis M. Kitromilides]
- Cyprus [Paschalis M. Kitromilides]
- Epirus [Dionisis Tzakis]
- Ionian Islands [Eleni Angelomatis-Tsougarakis]
- Macedonia [Basil C. Gounaris]
- Mesolonghi [Markos Karasarinis]
- Morea [Dionysis Tzakis]
- Navarino [Robert Holland]
- Rumeli [Markos Karasarinis]
- Samos [Christos Landros]
IV. Persons
- Clergymen [Phokion Kotzagiorgis]
- Civilian Leaders and the Beginnings of the Modern State [Dimitris Livanios]
- Diplomats and Diplomacy [Ioannis D. Stefanidis]
- Intellectuals [Roxane D. Argyropoulos]
- Military Leaders [Dimitrios Papastamatiou]
- Women [Eleni Angelomatis-Tsougarakis]
V. Institutions
- Assemblies and Constitutions [Nicos C. Alivizatos]
- The Economics of the Revolution [Kostas Kostis]
- Education [Dimitris C. Mavroskoufis]
- The Orthodox Church [Lucien Frary]
- The Press [Roxane D. Argyropoulos]
VI. Ideas and Creative Expression
- Enlightenment [Paschalis M. Kitromilides]
- Literature, Learning, and Print Culture [Alexis Politis]
- Popular Culture [Manolis G. Varvounis]
- The Revolution as Creative Experience [Peter Mackridge]
VII. Resonances
- Philhellenism [Roderick Beaton]
- American Philhellenism [Ioannis D. Evrigenis]
- The Visual Narration of the Greek War of Independence [Fani-Maria Tsigakou]
- The Revolution and the Romantic Imagination: Echoes in European Literature [Rosa Mucignat and David Ricks]
- Sounding the Greek Revolution: Music and the Greek War of Independence [Katerina Levidou]
- Historiographical Traditions and Debates [Pericles S. Vallianos]
- Anniversaries [Gonda Van Steen]
- Symbolic Commemorations and Cultural Affiliations [Constantinos Tsoukalas]
Summary Chronology: The Greek Revolution, 1814–1834
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Index

A Critical Dictionary

Edited by Paschalis M. Kitromilides

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