Philhellenism and the Greek Revolution of 1821

Michalis Sotiropoulos is Lecturer in Modern Greek Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. His studies focus on what Franco Venturi has described as a “political history of ideas”, with a particular emphasis on the Greek world in the early modern period, the Age of Revolutions and the wider Mediterranean in the 18th and 19th centuries. He has published widely on the themes, while his monograph Liberalism after the Revolution: The Intellectual Foundations of the Greek State, ca. 1830-1880, won the 2024 Edmund Keeley Book Prize of the Modern Greek Studies Association.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsPreface by Roderick Beaton, King’s College London, British School at Athens‘Introduction’Michalis Sotiropoulos, University of EdinburghPart 1: Philhellenism and the politics of race and philanthropy across the Americas1. ‘Between Greek Revolution and Jamaican Rebellion: Thomas Gordon as Philhellene and Slave Owner’Alasdair Grant, University of Hamburg2. ‘The Greek Revolution and the African-American press: The philhellenism of the newspaper Freedom’s Journal’Giorgos Giannikos, University of the Peloponnese3. ‘The Athens of America: Philanthropy, Philhellenism, and the ‘Greek Cause’ in Philadelphia’Tom Bull, University of PennsylvaniaPart 2: Philhellenism and Empire: Colonial imaginations and Imperial Contexts4. ‘Russian Philhellenes and Ionian Russophiles: Tsarist Interventions, Political Experimentation, and Military Traditions in the Ionian Islands (1768-1807)’ Lucien Frary, Rider University, New Jersey5. ‘The Royal Philhellene: The Duke of Sussex and Britain’s Unofficial Diplomacy in the Greek Revolution’ Aristides Hatzis, University of Athens6. 'Charles Napier and philhellenism as imperial benevolence in the Ionian Islands during the Greek Revolution’Sakis Gekas, York University, TorontoPart 3: Philhellenism in the opposition and on the ground7. ‘Philhellenes in the revolutionary army of Alexandros Ypsilantis: Transnational dimensions of the Greek Revolution’Iakovos Michailidis, University of Thessaloniki8. 'The Second Greek Declaration of Independence (1823) and the London Greek Committee’ Michalis Sotiropoulos, University of Edinburgh9. ‘Philhellenism in opposition’Anna Karakatsouli, University of AthensPart 4: Philhellenism and the making of paradigms10. ‘Philhellenism and the Policies of State Monitoring in Post-Napoleonic Europe’Christos Aliprantis, American College of Thessaloniki11. ‘Russian Philhellenism, temporalities, historicity, and Utopias for a “new” world’Ada Dialla, Athens School of Fine Art12. ‘From Greece to Poland: Installation of a model’Denys Barau, independent scholar (retired)13. ‘Τhe history of Italian philhellenism and its genealogy in Greek – Italian studies’Maria Christina Chatziioannou, National Hellenic Research FoundationAfterword: ‘From Mexico City to Cape Town, Calcutta and Beyond: The Global Spaces of Philhellenism’Maurizio Isabella, Queen Mary, University of London