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Classical Archaeology of Greeceby Michael Shanks
Routledge 1997; US$ 46.95Classical Archaeology of Greece is for anyone who shares a fascination for the material remains of Classical Greece and wishes to understand how archaeologists have interpreted them. more...
Greek Historyby Robin Osborne
Routledge 2004; US$ 30.95An accessible introduction for first year undergraduates to Greek history from the end of the Bronze Age (c.1200 BC) to the Roman conquest of Greece in the second century BC. more...
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...
Greeks and Pre-Greeksby Margalit Finkelberg
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 26.00This book offers an exciting new interdisciplinary approach to the study of Greek prehistory based on linguistics and Greek heroic tradition. It sheds new light on the enigma of the pre-Hellenic world and plots the cultural and historical background to the myth of the Trojan War. more...
The Ancient Greeksby Stephanie Lynn Budin
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 75.00Offering an insight into the ancient Greek world, this text introduces the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period, focusing on all aspects of history, culture and society. more...
Tools of the Ancient Greeksby Kris Bordessa
Nomad Press 2006; US$ 13.95Children will learn all about different civilizations and inventionsthe way they changed history, their evolution over centuries, and their influence on modern timesthrough the activities and anecdotes provided in this interactive series. Kids discover the origin of ancient Greek theories, such as anatomy, geography, and democracy, and the ways they continue to influence modern-day thinking with the absorbing time lines, sidebars, and activities included in this guide. Profiles of more than two dozen famous historical figures explain how their inventions are used in the modern world and provide insight into the experimental nature of the Aegean people. Fifteen activities allow children to re-create some of the scientific discoveries... 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...
Paideia : The Ideals of Greek Culture Volume IIIby Werner Jaeger; Gilbert Highet
Oxford University Press 1986; US$ 36.00Werner Jaeger's classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature, and philosophy is the basis for Jaeger's evaluation of Hellenic culture. Volume I describes the foundation, growth, and crisis of Greek culture during the archaic and classical epochs, ending with the collapse of the Athenian empire. The second and third volumes of the work deal with the intellectual history of ancient Greece in the Age of Plato, the 4th century B.C.--the age in which Greece lost everything that is valued in this world--state, power, liberty--but still clung to the concept of paideia. As its last great poet, Menander summarized... more...
Greece and the Cold Warby Evanthis Hatzivassiliou
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 168.00Presents 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...









