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Titre(s) : The Greek Revolution of 1821 [Texte imprimé] : European contexts, Scottish connections / edited by Roderick Beaton and Niels Gaul
Publication : Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, copyright 2024
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xvi, 405 pages) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection : Edinburgh Leventis studies ; 12
Lien à la collection : Edinburgh Leventis studies
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. IndexExplores little-known contexts of the Greek Revolution, especially the previously unrecognised Scottish dimension of the international movement known as Philhellenism
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Beaton, Roderick (1951-....). Éditeur scientifique Gaul, Niels. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Philhellénisme -- Écosse (GB) -- XIXe siècle Grèce -- 1821-1829 (Guerre d'Indépendance) -- Opinion publique -- Écosse (GB)
Indice(s) Dewey : 949.506 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Grèce - 1821-1830
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781399520638 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb475490129
Notice n° : FRBNF47549012 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : List of illustrations ; Editors' preface ; Notes on contributors ; Introduction: Greek and Scottish identities from the Enlightenment to the 'Age of Revolution' ; Part I. European contexts ; 1. 'Unspoken assumptions': prophecies and rumours in the age of Greek independence ; 2. Russia's Byzantine heritage: sixteenth-century myths and eighteenth-century realities ; 3. Translating the French Revolution: people, commitments, texts, methods4. 'The grand sacrifice': violence and revolution in Adamantios Korais's Asma Polemistirion (1800) ; 5. The Philiki Etaireia and Freemasonry: secret communication, the public sphere and social ideas ; Part II. Scottish connections ; 6. 'Finer than the Acropolis': Edinburgh, the Parthenon and the Scottish genius ; 7. 'A faithless tuant to the classic page': Sir Walter Scott, greek, Greece and the Greeks ; 8. Through 'the eye of an experienced traveller': Robert Wilson (1787-1871) in Ottoman and Revolutionary Greece9. Thomas Gordon and the Ghost of Tripolitsa: a study in private conflict and public relations ; 10. George Finlay and the Greek Revolution of 1821: the Scottish Enlightenment and transnational liberalism in revolutionary Europe ; 11. George Finlay, the founding figures of Greek national historiography and iconoclast Emperor Leo III: Byzantine paratexts of revolution ; 12. Edward Masson: Caledonian witness to the fortunes of Modern Greece ; 13. John Stuart Blackie and the pronunciation of ancient GreekAfterword: Parallel lives at the limits of Europe: enlightenment and nation-building in Scotland and Greece ; Index.