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).

• PrefaceChronologyIntroduction: The Greek Revolution of 1821 in the Age of RevolutionsHistoriographical Debates and New ResearchElias Kolovos and Dimitris KousourisTheoretical Debate: Revisiting a ‘Bourgeois Revolution’The Greek Left and the Challenge of Theorising ‘1821’Panagiotis SotirisPart1 The Ottoman Context of the Greek Revolution1 ‘Inciting the Rum Milleti to Rise Up’The Outbreak of the Greek Revolution of 1821 according to the Ottoman SourcesElias Kolovos, H.Şükrü Ilıcak and Mohamet Shariat-Panahi2 Salonica in the Revolutionary Conjuncture of 1821PhokionP. Kotzageorgis3 Post-revolutionary Salonica and Its EnvironsPenal Policies, Precautionary Steps and Institutionalised Rewards in the Aftermath of the RevoltDimitris PapastamatiouPart2 Times of Transition: Continuity and Rupture4 The Developing Idea of Liberation in the Course of the Greek National Movement in the Early Nineteenth CenturyThe Case of Christophoros PerraivosNikos Rotzokos5 The Greek Revolution in the MoreaEconomies, Societies, and CulturesAliki Fakoura6 Alliances, Factions and Political Practices of the Moreot Notables before and during the Greek RevolutionThe Cases of the Kanakaris-Roufos, Peroukas and Charalambis FamiliesDimitris BacharasPart3 The Dynamics of Modernisation7 Irregular Warfare in the Greek Revolution of 1821Klephtic or Partisan Warfare?Dionysis Tzakis8 Disciplining the ArmiesMilitary Medicine during the Greek Revolution (1821–31)Athanasios Barlagiannis9 Economy and Power in the Greek RevolutionPublic Revenues, Powerful Entities and State FormationSimos Bozikis10 Athens and Athenian Politics during the Greek RevolutionZachariasD. AntonakisPart4 Contested Lands, Shared Sovereignties11 The 1821 Greek Revolution in Central GreeceThe Catalytic Role of the Military Confrontation between Tepedelenli Ali Pasha and the Sublime PortePanagiotis Stathis12 The Catholics of Syros between Empire and Nation (1821–32)Dımıtris Kousourıs13 New Perspectives in Local Politics before and during the Greek RevolutionConsular Institutions in the Greek Archipelago (Late Eighteenth–Early Nineteenth Century)Eleftheria ZeiIndex