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S'està carregant… The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe (edició 2021)de Mark Mazower (Autor)
Informació de l'obraThe Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe de Mark Mazower
   Cap No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.   ) M_Clark | Aug 29, 2023 |  But the book contains no big picture explanation for any of these events. Ottoman actions are presented briefly, but the author seems to have no insight into the political thought process that guided Ottoman decisions. He expends far more pages on the opinions of various British observers and participants than on Turkish actions. Perhaps Ottoman sources were inaccessible to him because he doesn't read Turkish. But leaving out the Ottoman perspective entirely makes for a really one-sided historical account. A second problem is that the author, like many other historians, writes personalized history. We learn about Greek leaders (and British, of course) and what they did at various stages of the revolution. He leaves aside the social-scientific perspective: how did the Greeks organize their political actions before, during and after the revolution? Why did the far greater economic and military resources of the Ottoman state not give it a decisive advantage? The micronarrative of personal adventures leaves these key questions unanswered, and as a consequence the reader becomes none the wiser on the true causes and consequences of the Greek revolution. All in all, the book provides some entertainment but I wouldn't recommend it for readers looking for a broad perspective on this period of history. thcson | May 9, 2023 | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
"As Mark Mazower shows us in his enthralling and definitive new history, myths about the Greek War of Independence outpaced the facts from the very beginning, and for good reason. This was an unlikely cause, against long odds, a ragtag collection of Greek patriots up against what was still one of the most formidable 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. This was Christianity versus Islam, now given urgency by new ideas about the nation-state, and democracy, that were shaking up the old order. Lord Byron is only the most famous of the combatants who went to Greece to fight and die-many more followed events passionately and supported the cause through art, music, and humanitarian aid. To many who did go, it was a rude awakening to find that the Greeks were a far cry from their illustrious forebears, and were often hard to tell apart from the Ottomans. Mazower does full justice to the realities on the ground as a revolutionary conspiracy triggered outright rebellion, and a shambolic and distracted Ottoman leadership first missed the plot and then overreacted disastrously. He shows how and why ethnic cleansing commenced almost immediately on both sides. By the time the dust settled, Greece was free, and Europe was changed forever. It was a victory for a completely new kind of politics-international in its range and affiliations, popular in its origins, romantic in sentiment, and radical in its goals. It was here on the very edge of Europe that the first successful revolution took place in which a people claimed liberty for themselves and overthrew an entire empire to attain it, transforming diplomatic norms and the direction of European politics forever. This new world of nation-states is the world in which we still live. Mark Mazower's reckoning with its birth pangs in Greece is a masterpiece of the historian's art"-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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 Google Books — S'està carregant…GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)949.506History and Geography Europe Other parts Greece and the Byzantine Empire Byzantine Empire -- 323-1453 Greek independence 1821-LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana: (3.65)
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