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1821, the founding of modern Greece / Athina Cacouri.

By:

Kakoure, Athena [author]

Contributor(s):

Cox, Geoffrey [translator]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Athens : Patakis, 2020.Description: 271 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9789601689951

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

949.506

Partial contents:

How Hellenism survived through the centuries of Turkish rule -- What preceded and led to the decision of the Greeks to rise up on their own -- The Greeks rise up -- Capodistrias - Governor.

Summary: "Athina Cacouri's new book, 1821: The Founding of Modern Greece, tells the whole complicated story, from the outbreak of war in March 1821 to the emergence of a nominally independent state, in an English language narrative adapted from her Greek original in terms suitable for a young readership. The main focus of her book, rightly, is the leading Greek personalities, ranging from the doughty warrior Theodore Kolokotronis, whose vivid words on the 'torment' of leading an army of Greeks she quotes, to the western-influenced Alexander Mavrocordatos (for whom Cacouri has little love), and above all the tragic figure of Ioannis Capodistrias, the 'Governor' or first President of Greece, who did all in his power, with meagre resources, to create a well governed modern state. He was assassinated in Nafplion on 27 September 1831. Capodistrias is the first hero of this book. The other is the Greek People, to whose developing national feeling the emergence of the Greek state is largely owed. In what will be a crowded market, the book holds its own by the vigour of its narrative and judgments, and Athina Cacouri's knowledge and love of her native country and its people' -- Michael Llewellyn-Smith.

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Includes index.

How Hellenism survived through the centuries of Turkish rule -- What preceded and led to the decision of the Greeks to rise up on their own -- The Greeks rise up -- Capodistrias - Governor.

"Athina Cacouri's new book, 1821: The Founding of Modern Greece, tells the whole complicated story, from the outbreak of war in March 1821 to the emergence of a nominally independent state, in an English language narrative adapted from her Greek original in terms suitable for a young readership. The main focus of her book, rightly, is the leading Greek personalities, ranging from the doughty warrior Theodore Kolokotronis, whose vivid words on the 'torment' of leading an army of Greeks she quotes, to the western-influenced Alexander Mavrocordatos (for whom Cacouri has little love), and above all the tragic figure of Ioannis Capodistrias, the 'Governor' or first President of Greece, who did all in his power, with meagre resources, to create a well governed modern state. He was assassinated in Nafplion on 27 September 1831. Capodistrias is the first hero of this book. The other is the Greek People, to whose developing national feeling the emergence of the Greek state is largely owed. In what will be a crowded market, the book holds its own by the vigour of its narrative and judgments, and Athina Cacouri's knowledge and love of her native country and its people' -- Michael Llewellyn-Smith.