Anatolica

Studies in the Greek East in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Richard Clogg

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781040231296
• Edition: 0
• Topic: History
• Index: History

Until 1923 there were large Greek populations outside the boundaries of the Greek state in many areas of the Near and Middle East. These constituted what the Greeks term I kath'imas Anatoli ('our East') and were the focus for the Megali Idea, the 'Great Idea' of incorporating the Greeks of the region within a single state, with Constantiople as its capital. Professor Clogg deals here with the history of this Greek East in the 18th and 19th centuries and at the same time makes a contribution to the study of the Ottoman world within which they lived. The opening articles examine how these communities were defined, in religious terms (many were Turkish-speaking), and their organisation as part of the Ottoman system of government. Further studies then look at factors, economic, intellectual and messianic, which contributed to the emergence of the Greek state and its expansionist aspirations, and at aspects of religious history, including Protestant missionary activity and the Orthodox reaction to Enlightenment thought.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Map
• Chapter I: I kath’imas Anatoli: the Greek East in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
• Chapter II: The Greek millet in the Ottoman Empire
• Chapter III: Anadolu Hiristiyan Karindaslarimiz: the Turkish-speaking Greeks of Asia Minor
• Chapter IV: The Byzantine legacy in the modern Greek world: the Megali Idea
• Chapter V: The Dhidhaskalia Patriki (1798): an Orthodox reaction to French revolutionary propaganda
• Chapter VI: Elite and popular culture in Greece under Turkish rule
• Chapter VII: Korais and England
• Chapter VIII: Anti-clericalism in pre-independence Greece c. 1750–1821
• Chapter IX: ‘Eide ston Tourko vasilevei i adikia kai i arpagi': the Smyrna ‘rebellion’ of 1797
• Chapter X: The Greek mercantile bourgeoisie: ‘progressive’ or ‘reactionary’?
• Chapter XI: Sense of the past in pre-independence Greece
• Chapter XII: Some karamanlidika inscriptions from the Monastery of the Zoodokhos Pigi, Balikli, Istanbul
• Chapter XIII: Benjamin Barker’s journal of a tour in Thrace (1823)
• Chapter XIV: Some Protestant tracts printed at the press of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople: 1818–1820
• Chapter XV: A little-known Orthodox neo-martyr, Athanasios of Smyrna (1819)
• Chapter XVI: The correspondence of Adhamantios Korais with the British and Foreign Bible Society
• Chapter XVII: A further note on the French newspapers of Istanbul during the revolutionary period (1795–97)
• Chapter XVIII: An attempt to revive Turkish printing in Istanbul in 1779
• Index