Mark Mazower is Ira D. Wallach Professor of History at Columbia University where he directs the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. His previous books include Inside Hitler's Greece, Dark Continent, The Balkans and Salonica, City of Ghosts.
The Greek Revolution offers the best and fullest explanation, to
date, for a series of events whose effects would change the entire
geopolitics of Europe. Written with compassion and understanding
for the human cost of that achievement, it deserves to remain the
standard treatment of the subject in English for many decades to
come.
*Times Literary Supplement*
Exquisite detail, altogether impressive ... a cornucopia of
revolution.
*The Times*
Compelling and disturbing, enriched by many new sources and
excellent colour illustrations, and paying attention to the role of
Ottomans and Albanians as well as Greeks, Mazower's book will
become the standard account of this crucial revolution.
*The Spectator*
An engaging combination of fast-flowing narrative and insightful
analysis.
*Financial Times*
Encyclopaedic ... superbly subtle and thorough.
*Daily Telegraph*
With vivid detail, impeccable scholarship and great nuance, Mazower
shows how the modern idea of the nation emerges out of the complex,
sometimes random and often messy interactions between a plurality
of agents ... An illuminating account of both the unifying power of
myths about the past, and the dangers inherent when such myths are
connected to political reality.
*New Statesman*
As the subtitle of Mark Mazower's new book maintains, events in
Greece 200 years ago helped shape modern Europe. His elegant and
rigorous account also holds lessons for modern geopolitics: about
the galvanising effects of violence, the role of foreign
intervention and the design flaws in dreams.
*The Economist*
An epic narrative, both scholarly, breathlessly page-turning and
packed with hauntingly romantic characters. Few historians dig so
deep or with such sympathy into what history felt like to those
living through it ... anyone in search of an opera plot should
scour these drama-packed pages.
*The Tablet*
Broad in scope and colorful in detail, this is a masterful portrait
of a historic watershed. ... [A] sweeping history of Greece's 1821
war of independence against the Ottoman Empire. [Mazower] recounts
the revolution's inception among Greek emigrés with an idealistic
dream of Hellenic nationalism and its actuality as a murky,
eight-year struggle fought mainly by peasants and warlords who were
motivated less by patriotism than by religious hatred of Muslims,
factional vendettas, and mercenary self-interest ... A lucid,
elegantly written, and often gripping account.
*Publishers Weekly*
On the bicentennial of the Greek revolution, a prominent scholar
tracks the historical detail and enormous international
significance of the improbable, largely grassroots uprising against
the Ottoman Empire. Mazower, a Columbia professor and winner of the
Wolfson Prize for History who has written extensively about Greece
and the Balkans, ably ties together the many disparate threads of
this complex history of Greek independence. ... An elucidating
history that is relevant to understanding the geopolitics of Greece
today.
*Kirkus Reviews*
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