A History of Greece 7 Volume Set
A participant in the Greek struggle for independence alongside Lord Byron, the philhellene George Finlay (1799–1875) lent his support to the newly liberated nation while diligently studying its past. The monographs he published in his lifetime covered the history of Greece since the Roman conquest, spanning two millennia. His two-volume History of the Greek Revolution (1861) is reissued separately in this series. Edited by the scholar Henry Fanshawe Tozer (1829–1916) and published in 1877, this seven-volume collection brought together Finlay's histories, incorporating significant revisions. Notably, Finlay gives due consideration to social and economic factors as well as high politics. The volumes cover the following: Greece under the Romans, 146 BCE to 716 CE; the Byzantine empire, 716 to 1057; and from 1057 to 1453; medieval Greece, 1204–1461; Greece under Ottoman and Venetian rule, 1453–1821; the Greek revolution, 1821–7; and independence, monarchy and constitutions, 1827–64.
Product details
November 2014Multiple copy pack
9781108078405
3230 pages
325 × 252 × 153 mm
4.68kg
1 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Editor's preface
- Preface to the history of Greece under foreign domination
- Preface to Greece under the Romans
- Chronology
- Autobiography of the author
- 1. From the conquest of Greece to the establishment of Constantinople as capital of the Roman empire
- 2. From the establishment of Constantinople as capital of the Roman empire, to the accession of Justinian
- 3. The reign of Justinian
- 4. From the death of Justinian to the restoration of Roman power in the east by Heraclius
- 5. From the Mohammedan invasion of Syria to the extinction of the Roman power in the east
- Appendices. Volume 2: Part I. The Contest with the Iconoclasts:
- 1. The Isaurian dynasty
- 2. Reigns of Nicephorus I, Michael I, and Leo V
- 3. The Amorian dynasty
- 4. State of the Byzantine empire during the Iconoclast period
- Part II. Basilian Dynasty:
- 1. Consolidation of Byzantine legislation and despotism
- 2. Period of conquest and military glory
- 3. Period of conservatism and stationary prosperity. Volume 3: Part III. The Decline and Fall of the Byzantine Government:
- 1. The central government modified by the impoverishment and depopulation of Asia Minor
- 2. The dynasty of Comnenus
- 3. The fall of the Byzantine empire
- Part IV. Greek Empires of Nicaea and Constantinople:
- 1. Empire of Nicaea
- 2. Greek empire of Constantinople under the dynasty of Palaeologus
- Appendix. Volume 4: Part I. Mediaeval Greece:
- 1. Changes in the population in Greece after the decline of the Roman empire
- 2. Causes of hostile feelings between the Byzantine Greeks and the western Europeans
- 3. Overthrow of the Byzantine empire by the Crusaders
- 4. Empire of Romania
- 5. Despotate of Epirus, empire of Thessalonika
- 6. Dukes of Athens
- 7. Principality of Achaia or the Morea
- 8. Byzantine province in the Peloponnesus
- 9. Dukes of the Archipelago or of Naxos
- Part II. The Empire of Trebizond:
- 1. Foundations of the empire
- 2. Trebizond tributary to the Seljouk sultans and the Mongols
- 3. Trebizond independent
- 4. Re-establishment of the emperor's supremacy
- 5. Fall of the empire
- Appendix. Volume 5:
- 1. The political and military organisation of the Othoman empire
- 2. The naval conquests of the Othomans in Greece
- 3. Social conditions of the Greeks until the extinction of the tribute of Christian children
- 4. History of the Venetian domination in Greece
- 5. The causes and events which prepared the Greeks for independence
- Appendix. Volume 6: Part I. Events Preceding the Revolution:
- 1. The condition of the modern Greeks
- 2. The Albanians
- 3. Sultan Mahmud and Ali Psaha of Joannina
- Part II. The Commencement of the Revolution:
- 1. The causes
- 2. The operations of the Greek hetairists beyond the Danube
- 3. The outbreak of the revolution in Greece
- 4. The policy and conduct of Sultan Mahmud II
- Part III. The Successes of the Greeks:
- 1. The establishment of Greece as an independent state
- 2. The presidency of Mavrocordatos
- 3. Fall of Athens
- 4. The condition of Greece as an independent state
- Part IV. The Successes of the Turks:
- 1. Naval success
- 2. The siege of Mesolonghi
- 3. The siege of Athens. Volume 7: Part V. The Establishment of the Greek Kingdom:
- 1. Battle of Navarino
- 2. Presidency of Count Capodistrias
- 3. Anarchy
- 4. Bavarian despotism and constitutional revolution
- 5. Constitutional monarchy
- 6. Change of dynasty
- Appendix
- Index.