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Citizenship and the Nation-State in Greece and Turkeyby Faruk Birtek; Thalia Dragonas
Routledge 2004; US$ 39.95Citizenship and the Nation State in Greece and Turkey brings together papers on a transdisciplinary dialogue on nation formation in Greece and Turkey as successor states of the Ottoman Empire, and on aspects of civil society in the two more...
Greece's New Geopoliticsby Ian Lesser
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This work assesses Greece's evolving geopolitical role in light of its developing international relationships and a challenging regional political environment. It pays special attention to the implications for southeastern Europe and transatlantic relations. more...
Eleftherios Venizelosby Paschalis M. Kitromilides
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 89.99Offers a study of Eleftherios Venizelos, a towering figure in European diplomacy and Greece's greatest statesman in the twentieth century. The trajectory of Venizelos' career from Cretan rebel to an admired European statesman is charted in a sequence of chapters that survey his rise and great achievements in Greek and European politics. more...
The Withered Vineby Charles Shrader
Greenwood Publishing Group 1999; US$ 125.00Aiming to explain the failure of the Communist insurgency in Greece, this text studies the fate of an armed revolutionary movement which lacks adequate manpower and logistical resources, and is divided on such basic matters as foreign policy and the employment of its military capabilities. more...
Greece and the Cold Warby Evanthis Hatzivassiliou
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 160.00Presents a comprehensive analysis of Greek foreign and internal policy during the Cold War, covering the key period from the country's accession to NATO in 1952 until the imposition of the colonels' dictatorship in 1967. This book is of interest to students of Greek politics, Balkans history, the Cold War and strategic studies. more...
Genres of Recollectionby Penelope Papailias
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 102.00"Genres of Recollection" is an ethnography of popular historical practice in Greece. more...
Greek Colonisation, 2by Gocha R Tsetskhladze
BRILL 2008; US$ 216.00Greeks set up colonies in new environments, establishing themselves in lands stretching from the Iberian Peninsula in the west to North Africa in the south and the Black Sea in the north-east. This work aims to present the general picture of this phenomenon, showing its importance in the history of the whole ancient world, including the Near East. more...
The Kalamata Diaryby Eduardo Faingold
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2009; US$ 30.99From October 28, 1940 until February of 1947, Sotiria Salivaras provided a unique eye-witness account of life in Kalamata, Greece before, during, and after World War II through her meticulous diary entries. In The Kalamata Diary: Greece, War and Emigration, Eduardo D. Faingold carefully analyzes and contextualizes the major events in modern Greek history about which Salivaras writes in her diary. more...
Children of the Greek Civil Warby Loring M. Danforth; Riki Van Boeschoten
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 25.00At the height of the Greek Civil War in 1948, thirty-eight thousand children were evacuated from their homes in the mountains of northern Greece. The Greek Communist Party relocated half of them to orphanages in Eastern Europe, while their adversaries in the national government placed the rest in children’s homes elsewhere in Greece. A point of contention during the Cold War, this controversial episode continues to fuel tensions between Greeks and Macedonians and within Greek society itself. Loring M. Danforth and Riki Van Boeschoten present here for the first time a comprehensive study of the two evacuation programs and the lives of the children they forever transformed. Marshalling archival records, oral histories, and ethnographic... more...
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