The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe

Distinguished historian Mark Mazower (Columbia University) discusses his new book with Roderick Beaton (KCL). In the words of the publisher, Mazower “explores the central place of the struggle in the making of Romanticism and a new kind of politics that had volunteers flocking from across Europe to die in support of the Greeks. A story of how statesmen came to terms with an even more powerful force than themselves – the force of nationalism – this is above all a book about how people decided to see their world differently and, at an often terrible cost to themselves and their families, changed history.”