This volume is critical to the two dominant historiographical narrations on the topic of Balkan revolutions. Instead of adopting a description of the national movements as results of the dissolution of the territories of the Great Ottoman patient from the Great European Powers or an autonomous process of repetitive awakenings of sleeping Nations, drugged from the Oriental influence of their ruler, the author attempts a classification as well as a new description of the Balkan national movements as a continuous feedback with the internal sociopolitical schisms in Western Europe, as expressed in the Great revolutionary crises from the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century.About the Author: Prof. Dr. Dimitris Stamatopoulos teaches Balkan and Late Ottoman History at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki. He is a member of the Institutes for Advanced Studies in Princeton and in Freiburg, visiting professor at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (Paris), Princeton University and the Institute of European History in Mainz. Stamatopoulos is the author of many books and articles on the history of the Orthodox Christian populations in the Ottoman Empire.