"The Greek Fire": The Greek War for Independence and the Emergence of American Reform Movements, 1780-1860

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dc.contributor.advisorZagarri, Rosemarie
dc.contributor.authorSantelli, Maureen Elizabeth Connors
dc.creatorSantelli, Maureen Elizabeth Connors
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-12T02:56:59Z
dc.date.available2015-02-12T02:56:59Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation places early Americans in the midst of a global conflict that pit the Greeks against the Ottoman Turks. Although historians have focused a great deal of attention on American support for the French Revolution, few have examined a similar conflict, the Greek War for Independence. Fought from 1821 to 1832, this war generated nearly as much popular support and interest as had the French movement. Perceiving strong cultural and intellectual ties with Greece, American men and women identified the region as the seedbed of American democracy and a crucial source of American values. Contrasting their western classical tradition with the Muslim origins of the Ottoman Empire, Americans portrayed the struggle in Greece as a climactic battle between western freedom and Oriental despotism.
dc.format.extent350 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1920/9152
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsCopyright 2014 Maureen Elizabeth Connors Santelli
dc.subjectAmerican history
dc.subjectWorld history
dc.subjectAbolitionism
dc.subjectAmerican Foreign Relations
dc.subjectAmerican Reform Movements
dc.subjectAncient World
dc.subjectGreek Revolution
dc.subjectWomen's Rights
dc.title"The Greek Fire": The Greek War for Independence and the Emergence of American Reform Movements, 1780-1860
dc.typeDissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineHistory
thesis.degree.grantorGeorge Mason University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral

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