Understanding the Greek Revolution (1821–1832)

Elias Kolovos is Associate Professor in Ottoman History at the University of Crete. He has written, edited, and coedited books and papers on Ottoman History, including Across the Aegean: Islands, Monasteries and Rural Societies in the Ottoman Greek Lands (The Isis Press 2018). Dimitris Kousouris is Researcher in the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has written and co-edited articles, books and collective volumes in Modern and Contemporary History. His most recent book is: “Sira Nostra Patria”. The Latins of the Archipelago Between Empire and Nation-State (Berghahn 2022).

Preface

Chronology



Introduction: The Greek Revolution of 1821 in the Age of Revolutions

Historiographical Debates and New Research

 Elias Kolovos and Dimitris Kousouris



Theoretical Debate: Revisiting a ‘Bourgeois Revolution’

The Greek Left and the Challenge of Theorising ‘1821’

 Panagiotis Sotiris



Part1 The Ottoman Context of the Greek Revolution



1 ‘Inciting the Rum Milleti to Rise Up’

The Outbreak of the Greek Revolution of 1821 according to the Ottoman Sources

 Elias Kolovos, H.Şükrü Ilıcak and Mohamet Shariat-Panahi



2 Salonica in the Revolutionary Conjuncture of 1821

 PhokionP. Kotzageorgis



3 Post-revolutionary Salonica and Its Environs

Penal Policies, Precautionary Steps and Institutionalised Rewards in the Aftermath of the Revolt

 Dimitris Papastamatiou



Part2 Times of Transition: Continuity and Rupture



4 The Developing Idea of Liberation in the Course of the Greek National Movement in the Early Nineteenth Century

The Case of Christophoros Perraivos

 Nikos Rotzokos



5 The Greek Revolution in the Morea

Economies, Societies, and Cultures

 Aliki Fakoura



6 Alliances, Factions and Political Practices of the Moreot Notables before and during the Greek Revolution

The Cases of the Kanakaris-Roufos, Peroukas and Charalambis Families

 Dimitris Bacharas



Part3 The Dynamics of Modernisation



7 Irregular Warfare in the Greek Revolution of 1821

Klephtic or Partisan Warfare?

 Dionysis Tzakis



8 Disciplining the Armies

Military Medicine during the Greek Revolution (1821–31)

 Athanasios Barlagiannis



9 Economy and Power in the Greek Revolution

Public Revenues, Powerful Entities and State Formation

 Simos Bozikis



10 Athens and Athenian Politics during the Greek Revolution

 ZachariasD. Antonakis



Part4 Contested Lands, Shared Sovereignties



11 The 1821 Greek Revolution in Central Greece

The Catalytic Role of the Military Confrontation between Tepedelenli Ali Pasha and the Sublime Porte

 Panagiotis Stathis



12 The Catholics of Syros between Empire and Nation (1821–32)

 Dımıtris Kousourıs



13 New Perspectives in Local Politics before and during the Greek Revolution

Consular Institutions in the Greek Archipelago (Late Eighteenth–Early Nineteenth Century)

 Eleftheria Zei



Index