The Movement for Greek Independence 1770–1821: A collection of documents

## Preface in the preparation of this book and Mary J o Clogg for the index. I owe a special debt of gratitude to George Papageorgiou and to Alexis Dimaras for the unstinting way in which they have contributed to my understanding of the Greek texts. Responsibility for such inaccuracies as remain in the translations is, of course, mine alone. Ambiguities undoubtedly remain. I hope that some, at least, can be attributed to imprecisions in the original texts, for a number of these were composed by men who were not fully literate. Archaisms in the translations represent a deliberate effort to capture the flavour of the original. ## London june 1975 Note on transliteration ## RICHARD CLOGG The question of transliteration is invariably difficult. But a book of this kind poses unusual problems. While I have tried to be consistent in those passages which I have myself translated, it seemed inappropriate to try to harmonise or modernise the system of transliteration used by earlier writers and translators. Although inconsistencies in translation are therefore inevitable, the most important variant spellings are listed in the index. Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Urban and Rural Life....Pages 3-27 The Emergence of a Commercial Bourgeoisie....Pages 28-45 The Phanariots....Pages 46-55 The Church....Pages 56-69 Banditry and Piracy....Pages 70-76 Cultural Life: Enlightenment and Reaction....Pages 77-95 Contemporary Critics of Greek Society....Pages 96-117 Emancipation through Education, Moral Regeneration and Great Power Mediation....Pages 118-146 Front Matter....Pages 147-147 The Influence of the French Revolution....Pages 149-165 ‘Social Banditry’: The Memoirs of Theodoros Kolokotronis....Pages 166-174 Revolutionary Conspiracy: the ‘Philiki Etairia’....Pages 175-200 The Outbreak of the War of Independence....Pages 201-208 Back Matter....Pages 209-232