New Perspectives on the Greek War of Independence

This book marks the 200-year anniversary of uprisings in the Ottoman Balkans between February and March 1821, which became known in the West as the beginnings of the Greek War of Independence (18211832), and led to the formation of the modern Greek state. It explores the war and its impact on societies involved by delving into the myths that surround it, the realities that have often been ignored or suppressed, and its lasting legacies on national identities and histories. It also explores memory and commemoration in Greece, in other countries impacted, and the Greek diaspora. This book offers a fresh perspective on this pivotal event in Greek, Ottoman, Balkan, Mediterranean, European, and world histories. It presents new research and reflections to connect the war to wider history and to understand its importance across the last 200 years.

Presents new research on the Greek War of Independence Connects the war to wider European and Asian history Considers the importance of the Greek War of Independence for the present moment

Auteur

Yianni Cartledge is a PhD candidate at Flinders University, South Australia. His research explores migration from the Aegean islands to the English-speaking world between the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With a passion for Greek, Ottoman, Australian, and British histories, his current case studies include the Ikarians of South Australia and the Chiots of London. This is his first edited volume.

Andrekos Varnava is Professor of Imperial History at Flinders University, South Australia. He has published four monographs and more than 50 peer-reviewed articles/book chapters on the history of the British Empire, specifically in Cyprus, on the Armenian Question, and on British and Australian migration histories. This is his eleventh edited volume.

Contenu

1. The Greek Revolution 200 Years on: New Perspectives and Legacies by Yianni Cartledge & Andrekos Varnava.- 2. The Transnational Foundations of the Greek Revolution of 1821 by Michalis Sotiropoulos.- 3. 'A Sad and Ruined Land': The Environmental Impact of the Greek War of Independence by Thomas W. Gallant.- 4. New Perspectives in Local Societies during the Greek War of Independence: Living the War in the Aegean by Eleftheria Zei & Maria Spiliotopoulou.- 5. Greece of the North: An Icelandic Perspective of the Greek War of Independence by Arnór Gunnar Gunnarsson.- 6. A Local Uprising in an Ottoman Province? Mora/Morea, March 1821 by Anna Vlachopoulou.- 7. Circulation of Letters, News and Mobility during the Greek Revolution (1821-1832) by Dilek Özkan.- 8. 'When piracy is mixed with murder': Malta, Maniots, and Mediterranean Piracy during the Greek War of Independence by Leslie Rogne Schumacher.- 9. Privateering during the Greek War of Independence (1821-1829): Issues of Legitimacy, Organisation and Economics of a War-Induced Practice by Gelina Harlaftis & Katerina Galani.- 10. Revisiting the Battle of Navarino: An Accident Waiting to Happen by Bill Kappis.- 11. Cyprus and 1821: Myths, Realities and Legacies by Andrekos Varnava.- 12. The Chios Massacre (1822) and Chiot Emigration: A Coerced Diaspora by Yianni Cartledge.- 13. The United States as a Haven for Greek War Orphans? by Gonda Van Steen.- 14. Devoted to the Cause of Freedom: Jonathan Peckham Miller, Philhellenism, and the Transatlantic Struggle for Liberation by Christopher Helali.- 15. Russian Historiography and the Greek Revolution: Trends and Interpretations (1821-2021) by Lucien Frary.- 16. The Shot Heard Round the World: The Greek Revolution in Poetry by David Ricks.- 17. Symbolic Forms of Crisis and Modernization: Commemorating and Representing the Greek Revolution during the Interwar Period by Catherine Brégianni.- 18. Greek Diaspora and the Revolution of 1821 by George Kaloudis.- 19. The Greek War of Independence in World History by Nicholas Doumanis.