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Mark Mazower

The Greek Revolution : 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe...

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At a Glance
Dramatic historical narrative
Compelling human stories
Illuminates Greek independence struggle
Explores Romantic movement origins
Well-researched, award-winning work
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WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022A NEW STATESMAN AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021Deserves to remain the standard treatment of the subject in English for many decades to come Roderick Beaton, Times Literary SupplementIn the exhausted, repressive years that followed Napoleons defeat in 1815, there was one cause that came to galvanize countless individuals across Europe and the United States freedom for Greece.Mark Mazowers wonderful new book recreates one of the most compelling, unlikely and significant events in the story of modern Europe. In the face of near impossible odds, the people of the villages, valleys and islands of Greece rose up against Sultan Mahmud II and took on the might of the imperial Ottoman armed forces, its Turkish cavalrymen, Albanian foot soldiers and the fearsome Egyptians. Despite the most terrible disasters, they held on until military intervention by Russia, France and Britain finally secured the kingdom of Greece.Mazower brilliantly brings together the different strands of the story. He takes us into the minds of revolutionary conspirators and the terrors of besieged towns, the stories of itinerant priests, sailors and slaves, ambiguous heroes and defenceless women and children struggling to stay alive amid a conflict of extraordinary brutality. Ranging across the Eastern Mediterranean and far beyond, he explores the central place of the struggle in the making of Romanticism and a new...

SKU: M9780141978741
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Binding: Paperback;624 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: HBJD; Weight: 574 g; Dimensions: 127 x 197 x 30

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