Saturday, April 3, 202110:00 AM (Pacific Time)
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ABSTRACT
David Bell will discuss how the Greek Revolution was connected to the other great revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. A major precondition for these revolutions was the way that intensified imperial competition put the old empires of Eurasia under intolerable strain, and this was certainly the case for the Ottoman Empire, in its wars with Russia and Napoleonic France. Greece participated in the same great movement of ideas – the Enlightenment – which did so much to spur the American and French Revolutions. Increased trade and communication between Greece and Western Europe brought revolutionary ideas, and people with actual experience of revolution to Greece. The same networks also transmitted accounts of the Greek Revolution to the rest of the world, inspiring further revolutionary activity and nationalist movements elsewhere. In short, no discussion of the “Age of Revolution” could be complete without attention to the Greek Revolution.
UCLA Professor Lynn Hunt introduces this lecture, which is also sponsored by the Department of History and the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
David A. Bell is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Department of History at Princeton. Born in New York in 1961, he was educated at Harvard and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris before completing his doctorate at Princeton. Before coming back to Princeton in 2010 he taught at Yale and Johns Hopkins, where he also served as Dean of Faculty. A specialist in the history of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth- century France, he is the author of seven books, most recently Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020). He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Wilson Center, the American Council of Learned Societies and the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. A former Contributing Editor of The New Republic, he is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Nation.
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Bell-April-10-v2-jm-dq5.pdfSponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies, Department of History, UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture