Research Catalog

Title

Greece : the modern sequel : from 1821 to the present / John S. Koliopoulos, Thanos M. Veremis.

Author

Koliopoulos, Giannēs

Publication

New York : New York University Press, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Veremēs, Thanos.

Description

xiii, 407 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Subject

Greece > History > 1821-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 372-397) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Politics and statecraft. Regime to suit the nation -- Government and people. Politics and the public domain -- Political leadership -- Revolution and defeat : the civil war, 1943-9 -- Civil-war heritage and post-war politics -- KKE, a party like no other -- Homo politicus -- Institutions. Church of Greece -- Military -- Education : the mighty Greek school -- Economy. Society. Land of peasants -- Search for a middle class -- Migrants, refugees and diaspora -- Of heroes and heroic deeds : Rhigas Velestinlis (1757-98) -- Crime and impunity -- Ideology. Fashioning the new nation -- Demarcating the past -- Return of the Hellenes -- Of Greeks and others -- Turkey in Greece -- Europe in Greece -- Foreign policy. Greek foreign policy : from independence to liberation -- Post-war legacy -- Years of division -- Relations with the West -- Greek-Turkish relations -- Relations with the Balkans -- After 1974 -- Balkans -- Turkey -- National geography. Frontier and beyond -- Northern boundary -- War for land -- Culture.

ISBN

• 0814747671 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0814747663 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002016551

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library