Greek War of Independence

Nikos Christofis is Assistant Professor at the Department of Language and Intercultural Studies, at the University of Thessaly. He holds additional positions as an adjunct lecturer at the Hellenic Open University and an affiliate researcher at the Netherlands Institute at Athens (NIA). He has published extensively in Greek, English, Turkish, Chinese, and Spanish, including over seventy articles and book chapters, eleven edited books, and a monograph. He is the chief editor of the series Mediterranean Politics for Transnational Press and New Directions in Turkish Studies for Berghahn Books.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionLeonidas Moiras and Nikos ChristofisPart I: Historiographical Approaches of the Greek RevolutionChapter 1. Ottoman and Turkish Perceptions of the Greek Revolution and Greek IrredentismLeonidas Moiras and Alexandros LamprouChapter 2. Cyprus and the Greek Revolution of 1821: Narrating and Constructing the PastNikos ChristofisChapter 3. Albanian National Narratives and “Interbalkanisms”: Centers and Visions of the “Greek” in the Nineteenth CenturyElias G. SkoulidasChapter 4. The Question of the Elites in the Historiography of the 1821 Greek RevolutionDimitris StamatopoulosPart II: The Greek Revolution in the Ottoman ContextChapter 5. The Greek Independence War, Ottoman Citizenship, and Military Conscription: The Story of a Vicious CircleErik-Jan ZürcherChapter 6. From the Nile to Navarino: The Greek Revolution in the Egyptian HistoriographyPanos KourgiotisChapter 7. Across the Aegean: Muslim Migration from the Morea during the Greek War of IndependenceHilal Cemile TümerPart III: The Global Impact of the Greek RevolutionChapter 8. American Protestant Missionaries and the Greek RevolutionElmira VasilevaChapter 9. Russian Liberalism and the Revolutions of the 1820s: The Greek 1821Ada DiallaChapter 10. The Greeks and Transnational Political Policing in Europe during the Age of RevolutionsChristos AliprantisChapter 11. The Ottoman-Iranian Enmity and the Greek War of IndependenceMohammed Shariat-PanahiChapter 12. “Every Single Verse Seems to Be Speaking to the Contemporary Chinese”: Perceptions of the Greek Revolution of 1821 in Japan and ChinaEgas Moniz BandeiraAfterword: Beginnings, the End, and an Apology: A ‘1619 Project’ for GreeceChristine PhilliouIndex

“It is a very original and useful book that highlights the impact of the Greek War of Independence both in the immediate Balkan region and as far as distant China and Japan. The authors make use of very different sources and archives in various languages, which is quite rare for studies on the Greek Revolution. The multifaceted narrative shows the broader dimensions of the event and places it in the perspective of global history.” • Prof. Anna Karakatsouli, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens