History\'s Spoiled Children is the Story of a small Ottoman province and its transformation into a Modern European state.
Kostas Kostis explores this perception and traces the formation of this favored Modern nation, dubbed in nineteenth-century Europe the \'\'Spoiled children of history\'..
With this in mind, one may better understand the West\'s (more or less) particular treatment of these populations, which not only rebelled against the Ottoman Empire in the name of Christianity but also invoked connections to an ancient past in which Europe sees the roots of its own identity.
Western Europeans regard Greece and Greeks as foundational in their own history.
However, there is one distinction that cannot be ignored.
Though the Greeks of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were Christians whereas the societies subject to Western experimentation today are Muslim, the political venture known as modernization has treated both as civilizing projects and in no way as equal partners.
In some respects, the challenges to the formation of the Greek state could be likened to those encountered by the Western world in its efforts to impose its politico-cultural model on societies foreign to it.
History\'s Spoiled Children is the Story of a small Ottoman province and its transformation into a Modern European state
