Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1 The Nation and the Revolution
1 The Revolution in Moldavia and Wallachia: Questions on the Borders of the Greek Nation
1 The Declarations of Alexandros Ypsilantis: Hellas in Serbia and Bulgaria
2 The Evolution and Failure of the Campaign in Moldavia and Wallachia
3 Questions for Consideration: Nation, State and Borders of Claimed Territory
2 The ‘Hellas’ of 1821: Initial Thoughts on the Dissemination of Greek National Politicisation
1 The Boundaries of ‘Hellas’, Beginning with Rigas Pheraios (1797) to 1821
2 Various Assessments of the ‘Transnational’ Element of the Revolution in the National Historiography
3 Language, Origins and the ‘Plans of the Friends’
3 Approaches to the Nation: A General Theoretical Assessment
1 The Traditional Ethnocentric Approach
2 The ‘Objective’ Approach
3 The ‘Subjective’ Approach
4 The Priority of the Political Element: The Nation as State-Instituted ‘Popular Will’
5 The Nation of Capital: Further Points on a Theory of the Nation
4 Romans and Greeks in the Ottoman Empire: From Pre-national Social Cohesion to a Greek Nation
1 Introductory Remarks concerning the Birth of the Greek Nation
2 Remarks on the Structure of the Ottoman Empire
3 Language and the ‘Universalist Hermeneutics’ of Nationalism
4 The Chronicle of Galaxidi, or a Pre-national, ‘Roman’ Historical Narrative of the period 981–1703
5 Two Events Non-national in Character
6 The Ottoman Empire and the Birth of the Greek Nation
Part 2 The Revolution and Its State
5 The First State of the Revolution: The Victorious Period (1821–1824)
1 Constitutions and Institutions: The Formation of a Bourgeois State
2 Lords, Politicians and Military Corps: The Political Uplifting of the Masses
3 Political Trends and Civil Wars
4 Regarding Class Antagonisms within the Revolutionary Forces
6 The Ebb of the Revolution, the Intervention of the ‘Great Powers’ and the End of Constitutional Republicanism (1825–1833)
1 The Unfavourable Turn in the War
2 International-Political Relations and Diplomatic Recognition of the Greek state
3 Internal Conflicts, Dead-Ends, and the End of Constitutional Republicanism
7 The Formation of a Capitalist State and Social Formation
1 The Revolution and Its State as a Point of No Return in the Process of Consolidating Capitalist Social Relations
2 Capital as a Relationship: Manufacture, Shipping, Trade and Financial aAtivities
3 Agricultural Production, Rural Property Relations and ‘National Lands’
4 Remnants and Resistance of the ‘ancien régime’
Part 3 The Revolution as the ‘Grand Idea’ and as the ‘Present’
8 ‘Hellenisation of the East’: The Vision and the Reality
1 A Partial Review: A Genuine Bourgeois Revolution
2 The Grand Idea of the Revolution
3 Greek and the Greek-Speaking Populations of the Ottoman Empire
4 The Economic Dimension of the Grand Idea
5 Contraction and the ‘Stability’ of the Grand Idea Following the Development of Balkan Nationalisms
6 After the Grand Idea: ‘A Rupture within Continuity’
9 1821 ‘in the Present’: On the Ideological Uses of the Revolution
1 Introduction: on the Ideological Uses of History
2 The Tradition of the ‘Continuity of Hellenism’ and Its Transformations in the Nineteenth Century
3 The Ideology of ‘National Continuity’ as a Devaluation of the Revolution and as a Self-Contradiction
4 ‘National Continuity’ and Racism
5 Historical Approaches in the Context of the Left (1907–1946): From Attempts at Scientific Analysis for the Documentation of a Socialist Strategy to Ideological Uses of History
6 Does History Unite a Nation?
References
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