Author: William MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A History of the Greek People (1821-1921).
Author: William MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
History of GREECE 1821-1921
Author: William MillerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781500809355
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The outstanding feature of our age is neither nationality nor democracy, nor applied science, but the growing consciousness of the essential unity of mankind, both on the material and on the spiritual plane. Since the murders at Sarajevo in 1914 it can no longer be argued that any part of the earth is too remote or any country too insignificant to concern the life and fortunes of every one of us. The world has become a hall of echoes, a vast whispering gallery. For good or evil the civilized nations form a single family. Isolation spells stagnation and hermit kingdoms are out of date.The most urgent task of the coming years is to substitute the reign of law in the relations of States for the moral anarchy which brought the old Europe to its doom. But the League of Nations will only establish itself as our guardian and our guide if it rests on the explicit assent of the plain citizen, by whom governments are chosen and to whom statesmen are ultimately responsible. It is no longer enough to be a good Englishman or even a good European; for as members of the League we are now also citizens of the world, and must never forget that civilization is a collective achievement and a common responsibility.Our new status brings obligations as well as privileges, among them the duty of knowing more of our fellow-members in the association of nations. Without such knowledge we can never understand why they act and think as they do, nor can we measure the value of their contribution to the making of the world in which we find ourselves. The more we can learn of the life and growth of other lands the better. There are indeed many claims on our energies; but there should be no difficulty in a person of average intelligence finding time to master brief narratives of at any rate the later chapters of the story of the nations. What he wants-and what the writer who knows his business will give him-is not a sterile record of wars and dynasties, but a historical interpretation of the events and institutions, the social life, the ideas and ideals which influence the fortunes or express the individuality of organized political communities.Mr. William Miller is the greatest living British authority on medieval and modern Greece. His larger works are the treasured companions of the historical scholar; but readers of this little volume will quickly discover that he carries his learning lightly and can adapt himself to the needs of the beginner no less than to those of the expert. He writes with sympathy yet without flattery of the gifted people whom he knows so well. There is nothing more romantic than the survival of the Greek nation and the Greek language in unbroken continuity from classical times; and no country could wish for a more competent recorder and interpreter of its trials, its achievements, and its aspirations.
A History of the Greek People (1821-1921).
Author: William MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
History of the Greek People (1821-1921)
Author: William MillerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780243693566
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
History of Greece 1821-1921
Author: William MillerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781986525916
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The country which Otho had come to rule was in no enviableplight. Any land which has had the misfortune to be governed bythe Turks is always devoid of the elements of material progress;roads require making, harbors dredging, and marshes draining;the only means of communication are mule-tracks; broken-downwooden jetties take the place of piers; and malaria scourgesregions which in the golden age of antiquity nourishedflourishing cities. Such as is Albania to-day (save for theimprovements made by the Austrians and the Italians during thelate war), such was Greece in 1833, with the great additionaldisadvantage of having been the theatre of a bitter racial andreligious struggle, followed by internecine conflicts, for nearlytwelve years. Centuries of subordination to foreign masters haddeveloped that spirit of intrigue which was innate in theByzantine character, while the love of politics is as inbred in theGreek as is the love of education. It is always harder to govern ahighly critical and political people than the more stolid Northernnations, and the heavy Bavarian intellect was unadapted to dealwith the versatile Greek mentality. The Regency soon set thegossips of the small world of Nauplia talking; the discordbetween Armansperg and Maurer was enhanced by the airswhich the former's wife gave herself, and the foreignrepresentatives began to interfere in internal Greek politics, justas, in the time of the Obrenoviches, there were Austrian andRussian parties at Belgrade, and in 1914, at the similar pettycourt of Durazzo, the Italian and Austrian Ministers intriguedwith rival Albanian parties. Consequently, the Regency was not asuccess; it would, indeed, have been a miracle if it hadsucceeded.After disbanding the irregulars-always a difficult problem inthe Balkans after the end of a war-the Regency proceeded to theformation of a Greek Ministry under Spyridon Trikoupes, thehistorian of the Revolution and father of the still more celebrated statesman of the latter part of last century. The Bavarianscommitted the mistake in their internal policy of substituting ahighly centralized bureaucracy for those ancient municipalliberties which even the Turks had respected. The kingdom wasdivided by a paper symmetry into ten nomarchies, subdividedinto forty-two eparchies, and these last again into demes, ofwhich the chief, or demarch, was nominated by the Crown andcould be suspended by the Minister of the Interior. Acomplicated code and a theoretical system of education wereimposed upon a country as yet unfit for either, and the press wasmanacled by the necessity of depositing large sums as cautionmoney for its good behavior. Now to the Greeks, ever eager "totell or to hear some new thing," the newspaper is a necessity ofexistence; so, when the Regency by its severe press restrictionsmade it impossible for the Opposition journals to live, the criticalspirit of the people was deprived of its natural vent and forcedinto subterraneous channels.
A History of the Greek People (1821-1921)
Author: William MillerPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330869970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Excerpt from A History of the Greek People (1821-1921) The outstanding feature of our age is neither nationality nor democracy, nor applied science, but the growing consciousness of the essential unity of mankind, both on the material and on the spiritual plane. Since the murders at Sarajevo in 1914 it can no longer be argued that any part of the earth is too remote or any country too insignificant to concern the life and fortunes of every one of us. The world has become a hall of echoes, a vast whispering gallery. For good or evil the civilized nations form a single family. Isolation spells stagnation and hermit kingdoms are out of date. The most urgent task of the coming years is to substitute the reign of law in the relations of States for the moral anarchy which brought the old Europe to its doom. But the League of Nations will only establish itself as our guardian and our guide if it rests on the explicit assent of the plain citizen, by whom governments are chosen and to whom statesmen are ultimately responsible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The History of Greece
Author: GoldsmithPublisher: Trieste Publishing
ISBN: 9780649603954
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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A History of Greece: The Greek revolution, pt. 1, A.D. 1821-1827
Author: George FinlayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Greek Revolution
Author: Paschalis M. KitromilidesPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674259319
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 825
Book Description
Winner of the 2022 London Hellenic Prize On the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, an essential guide to the momentous war for independence of the Greeks from the Ottoman Empire. The Greek war for independence (1821–1830) often goes missing from discussion of the Age of Revolutions. Yet the rebellion against Ottoman rule was enormously influential in its time, and its resonances are felt across modern history. The Greeks inspired others to throw off the oppression that developed in the backlash to the French Revolution. And Europeans in general were hardly blind to the sight of Christian subjects toppling Muslim rulers. In this collection of essays, Paschalis Kitromilides and Constantinos Tsoukalas bring together scholars writing on the many facets of the Greek Revolution and placing it squarely within the revolutionary age. An impressive roster of contributors traces the revolution as it unfolded and analyzes its regional and transnational repercussions, including the Romanian and Serbian revolts that spread the spirit of the Greek uprising through the Balkans. The essays also elucidate religious and cultural dimensions of Greek nationalism, including the power of the Orthodox church. One essay looks at the triumph of the idea of a Greek “homeland,” which bound the Greek diaspora—and its financial contributions—to the revolutionary cause. Another essay examines the Ottoman response, involving a series of reforms to the imperial military and allegiance system. Noted scholars cover major figures of the revolution; events as they were interpreted in the press, art, literature, and music; and the impact of intellectual movements such as philhellenism and the Enlightenment. Authoritative and accessible, The Greek Revolution confirms the profound political significance and long-lasting cultural legacies of a pivotal event in world history.
The Greek Revolution
Author: Mark MazowerPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143110934
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize • One of The Economist's top history books of the year From one of our leading historians, an important new history of the Greek War of Independence—the ultimate worldwide liberal cause célèbre of the age of Byron, Europe’s first nationalist uprising, and the beginning of the downward spiral of the Ottoman Empire—published two hundred years after its outbreak As Mark Mazower shows us in his enthralling and definitive new account, 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 disorganized collection of Greek patriots up against what was still one of the most storied 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—along with many more who 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 fraying 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, and inaugurating a new world of nation-states, the world in which we still live.