The Movement for Greek Independence 1770-1821, Richard Clogg

 

THE MOVEMENT FOR GREEK INDEPENDENCE 1770-1821

EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY

RICHARD CLOGG

First published in 1976 and reprinted in 2021, on the two hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence, this book contains a wide range of documents, many translated from the Greek or French, together with contemporaneous sources in English. The original text is accompanied by a supplementary bibliography.

A documentary collection of this kind retains its usefulness indefinitely. Although published forty-five years ago, Paschalis Kitromilides, as recently as 2013 in his Enlightenment and Revolution: the Making of Modern Greece (Harvard University Press), has written that ‘an anthology of primary sources by Richard Clogg has remained the only contribution that could serve as a substantive introduction to the subject.’

On its initial publication, other scholars welcomed the book:

‘... A work which is indispensable reading not only for those interested in the origins of the Greek War of Independence but also for those generally interested in the intellectual and cultural history of modern Greece’, Theofanis Stavrou, Balkan Studies 18 (1977)

‘A splendid collection’, John Petropulos, The American Historical Review 83 (1978)

In 1976, the book was published by Macmillan and priced at £10, the equivalent of £73 today.

It is now available as a paperback from Amazon at £15 plus postage.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Movement-Greek-Independence-1770-1821/dp/1527286223/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Movement+for+Greek+Independence%2C+Clogg&qid=1615039297&sr=8-1 238pp. ISBN 978-1-5272-8622-1