The Earliest Nationalist Revolutions, 1804-1830

I. Oral Report #1:   "The Serbian Revolution & the Serbian State."

II. Oral Report #2:  " The Greek Revolution & the Greek State."

III. Reading Assignments: [for next week]:
    1. Clogg, pp. 23-46.
    2. Jelavich, pp. 26-83.
    3. Kolokotrones, "The Klepht & the Warrior: Sixty Years of Peril & Daring: an Autobiography."

    The first "national" revolutions took place in the Balkans soon after the French Revolution, & during the Napoleonic wars. Many treatments of "modern" Balkan history imply that the revolutions in Western European & Balkan societies were related:
    1. How were the Western European ideas about "nationalism" transmitted to the Balkans?
    2. Were those ideas transformed in the process? How?
    3. Given the enormous differences between Western European & Balkan societies & political systems, how can we believe that the same forces are at work?
    4. Read Kolokotrones' account of his poltical awakening before & during the Greek Revolution:
            · Where did his loyalties lie? Did they change?
            · For Kolokotrones, what were the sources of Greek identity & natinal self-awareness?
            · How modern is his concept of the nationa-state?

5. In what way did the Napoleonic wars (Jena & Austerlitz) influence the course of events in the Serbian efforts to break away from the Ottoman Empire?

IV. Identifications:
 

Skupstina	Constitutionalists	Battle of Navaron (1827)
Dimitrije Obradovic	Philike Hetairia	pashalik
Karageorge	Alexander Ypsilantis	The Porte
Milos Obrenovic	John Capidostrias	knez
Dahis	"Eastern" Question	Treaty of Tilsit (1812)