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Book Review
Comparative/World
Natalie Klein. "L'humanité, le christianisme, et la liberté": Die internationale philhellenische Vereinsbewegung der 1820er Jahre. (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für europäische Geschichte Mainz, Abteilung für Universalgeschichte, number 178.) Mainz: Philipp von Zabern. 2000. Pp. xii, 382. DM 88.
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There appears to be a renaissance of interest in the Balkan insurrection of 1821 that eventually resulted in the creation of the kingdom of Greece. At least six books on the Greek War of Independence have appeared in the last two years alone. Some have been general works that add little to the existing literature, while others, like the tome under review here, make substantive contributions to a better understanding of the conflict within a broader historical framework. It would seem also that there is an especial interest among German scholars in the philhellenic movement. Over the last decade, a number of monographs and edited collections have appeared in German on the history of philhellenism. Natalie Klein's book provides an excellent capstone to this literature. |
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