Enlightenment and revolution : the making of modern Greece

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To comprehend how Greece precipitated such an outsized economic crisis in Europe, we must understand how it developed into a nation in the first place. Enlightenment and Revolution traces the ideologies that shaped a Greek-speaking religious community into a modern nation-state- one in which antilib...

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Main Author: Kitromilides, Paschalis (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Greek
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013
Subjects:
Enlightenment > Greece.
Political science > Greece > Philosophy > History > 18th century.
Political science > Greece > Philosophy > History > 19th century.
Social sciences > Greece > Philosophy > History > 18th century.
Social sciences > Greece > Philosophy > History > 19th century.
Greece > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Greece > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Greece > Politics and government > 18th century.
Greece > Politics and government > 19th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to the American edition
  • Prologue : the political meaning of the Enlightenment
  • The long road to Enlightenment
  • The formation of modern Greek historical consciousness
  • The geography of civilization : from adulation to revolution
  • Enlightened absolutism as a path to change
  • Ancients and moderns : cultural criticism and the origins of republicanism
  • The revolution in France: the glow and the shadow
  • The Enlightenment's political alternative
  • The Enlightenment as social criticism
  • The republican synthesis : a matrix for nationalism
  • The fate of the enlightenment
  • Epilogue : the conditions of liberal politics.

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