Abstract
The Greek Revolution took place in the midst of an extraordinary wave of revolutions that swept across the Western world. Americans and Britons were still at war in the early 1780s when revolutionary activity began in the Netherlands, and scarcely six years after the achievement of American independence, the convocation of the Estates General at Versailles in 1789 set off the immense explosion of the French Revolution. The study of revolutionary contagion above all involves intellectual and cultural history – and also, in the case of revolutionary actors, biography. The study of revolutionary disruption is, by its nature, more varied, and more focused on contingent events. Karl Marx, and the long historiographical tradition he inspired, saw changes in the economic mode of production as the key shared structural change behind the revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries – and especially the French Revolution of 1789.
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