The years 2021 and 2022 mark two consequential events in Modern Greek history with global ramifications. 2021 commemorates the bicentenary of the outbreak Greek Revolution which gave rise to the first independent nation-state in post-Napoleonic Europe. 2022 marks the centenary of the Greek-Turkish population exchange, which brought the nationalist-imperial project for the creation of a Greater Greece to a dramatic end. These events brought Modern Greece at the forefront of key developments in Modern European history: the triumph of liberalism and nation-building in the 19thcentury, and the failures of nationalism and of the territorial state in the 20th century. Focusing on the shift from the 19thcentury Great Power politics to the 20th century international system, the book offers a new international history of the workings of European imperialism in Modern Greece in a regional perspective from the 1850s until the outbreak of the Second World War.

The book argues that Modern Greece, a small state in Europe’s periphery, has been a testing ground for European imperialism manifested in different kinds of military, economic and humanitarian intervention. By making use of English, French, German and Greek archival sources the book focuses on a sequence of episodes in critical moments of Greek and European history, uncovers the largely neglected history of these interventions in the territory of a state in flux, and tells the story of their Greek and European protagonists.

The book is under contract with Bloomsbury Academic