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020    9781591847335|qhardback 
041    eng 
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092 0  949.5|bengelska 
100 1  Mazower, Mark|4aut 
245 14 The Greek Revolution :|b1821 and the making of modern 
       Europe /|cMark Mazower 
264  1 New York :|bPenguin Press,|c[2021] 
264  4 |c©2021 
300    xl, 567 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates
       |billustrations, maps|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-541) and 
       index 
520    "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"--|cProvided by publisher 
648  7 1815-1848|2fast 
650  7 Revolutioner|2sao 
650  7 Historia|2sao 
650  7 Grekiska frihetskriget 1821-1829|2sao 
651  0 Greece|xHistory|yWar of Independence, 1821-1829 
651  0 Europe|xHistory|y1815-1848 
651  7 Grekland|2sao 
651  7 Osmanska riket|2sao 
651  7 Europa|2sao 
651  7 Europe.|2fast 
651  7 Greece.|2fast 
655  7 History.|2fast