Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire
Gonda Van Steen
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Description for Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire
Hardback. This book employs a close reading of Marcellus' works and offers a compelling new interpretation of the relationship between philhellenism and Orientalism. Num Pages: 251 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire explores two key historical episodes that have generally escaped the notice of modern Greece, the Near East, and their observers alike. In the midst of the highly charged context of West-East confrontation and with fundamental cultural and political issues at stake, these episodes prove to be exciting and important platforms from which to reexamine the age-old conflict. This book reaches beyond the standard sources to dig into the archives for important events that have fallen through the cracks of the study of emerging modern Greece and the Ottoman Empire. These events, in which French ... Read more
Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire explores two key historical episodes that have generally escaped the notice of modern Greece, the Near East, and their observers alike. In the midst of the highly charged context of West-East confrontation and with fundamental cultural and political issues at stake, these episodes prove to be exciting and important platforms from which to reexamine the age-old conflict. This book reaches beyond the standard sources to dig into the archives for important events that have fallen through the cracks of the study of emerging modern Greece and the Ottoman Empire. These events, in which French ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
Number of Pages
251
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230100237
SKU
V9780230100237
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99-15
About Gonda Van Steen
GONDA VAN STEEN, N. A. Cassas Chair in Greek Studies at the University of Florida, USA.
Reviews for Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire
"Gonda Van Steen s immensely learned and engaging Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire uses these traveler s tales of Marcellus as a platform to reinvestigate age-old and newly urgent West-East conflicts. . . . She deftly works with Romanticism, art and theatre history, performance studies, political science, literary and cultural theory, and travel and tourism; throughout, she figuratively picks ... Read more