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Women and Nationalism in the Making of Modern Greece
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 90.00This pioneering book reveals how nationalism in Ninteenth-century Greece helped women to develop an alternative vision of female politics, history, and citizenship. Shedding new light on women's ideas and beliefs the author brings to life the story of the ideas that formed our societies and individual identities. more...
Women Writing Greece
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 72.80Women Writing Greece explores images of modern Greece by women who experienced the country as travellers, writers, and scholars, or who journeyed there through the imagination. The essays assembled here consider women's travel narratives, memoirs and novels, ranging from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century, focusing on the role of gender... more...
Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00This book employs a close reading of Marcellus' works and offers a compelling new interpretation of the relationship between philhellenism and Orientalism. more...
Not Even My Name
Picador 2007; US$ 16.99A riveting account of exile from Turkish genocide, brought to light for the first time ever in Sano Halo's personal story Not Even My Name exposes the genocide carried out during and after WW I in Turkey, which brought to a tragic end the 3000-year history of the Pontic Greeks (named for the Pontic Mountain range below the Black Sea). During... more...
The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 11431180
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 64.00A study of twelfth-century Byzantine government, society and culture through the reign of Manuel I. more...
The Byzantine World
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 52.95The Byzantine World presents the latest insights of the leading scholars in the fields of Byzantine studies, history, art and architectural history, literature, and theology. Those who know little of Byzantine history, culture and civilization between AD 700 and 1453 will find overviews and distillations, while those who know much already will be... more...
The Cyprus Conspiracy
I.B.Tauris 2011; US$ 28.00In 1974 the Greek colonels ousted the Greek-Cypriot leader of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, and Turkey retaliated by invading and seizing a third of the island. Cyprus remains split in two, like Berlin before the wall came down, bristling with troops and spying bases, and permanently policed by the United Nations. Henry Kissinger claimed he could do... more...
Greece, A Love Story
Seal Press 2007; US$ 15.95Greece, it has been said, is where art became inseparable from life. The country evokes a richly embroidered tapestry of images, from old monuments rife with history to idyllic isles of glass-blue sea and blinding white stucco dwellings. Greece enchants its visitors with its beauty, tradition, and spirit. In this eloquent collection, women share... more...
The Cyprus Problem
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 12.99For nearly 60 years--from its uprising against British rule in the 1950s, to the bloody civil war between Greek and Turkish Cypriots in the 1960s, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in the 1970s, and the United Nation's ongoing 30-year effort to reunite the island--the tiny Mediterranean nation of Cyprus has taken a disproportionate share of the international... more...
Greek Pilgrimage
Scribe Publications Pty Ltd. 2011; US$ 19.99This is a travel book in the grand sense. The horizons it explores are of land and sea, and of the mind. Greek Pilgrimage is a meditation on classical Greece, journeying through its great sites, monuments, and cultural works. On the way, it examines the country?s pivotal role in the foundation of the modern world. We who are born into the West are... more...









