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Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation by Roderick Beaton 9780226809793
RRP: $27.09$21.94For many, “Greece” is synonymous with “ancient Greece,” the civilization that gave us much that defines Western culture today. But, how did Greece come to be so powerfully attached to the legacy of the ancients in the first place and then define an... -
The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe by Mark Mazower 9780143110934
RRP: $27.09$21.26Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize * One of The Economist's top history books of the year From one of our leading historians, an important new history of the Greek War of Independence-the ultimate worldwide liberal cause celebre of the age of Byron,... -
Athanasios Souliotis-Nikolaidis and Greek Irredentism: A Life in the Shadows by John A. Mazis 9781793634443
RRP: $99.33$87.23Athanasios Souliotis-Nikolaidis (1878-1945) was a Greek military officer, undercover agent, author, and politician who is not as well known in Greece today as he should be. Inasmuch as he is remembered at all today, Souliotis-Nikolaidis is associated... -
The Muslim Bonaparte: Diplomacy and Orientalism in Ali Pasha's Greece by K. E. Fleming 9780691631431
$112.11Ali Pasha of Ioannina (?1750-1822), the Ottoman-appointed governor of the northern mainland of Greece, was a towering figure in Ottoman, Greek, and European history. Based on an array of literatures, paintings, and musical scores, this is the first... -
Greek-Albanian Entanglements since the Nineteenth Century: A History by Alexis Heraclides 9781032123752
RRP: $174.15$151.81This book is a comprehensive study of more than 200 years of the shared and interconnected histories of Greek-Albanian relations, a field of inquiry that has not attracted the international scholarly attention it deserves. The book presents and analyses... -
Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece by Dimitris Keridis 9781442264700
RRP: $158.67$138.84Greece is a ancient land, blessed with a stunning natural beauty and an inspiring cultural heritage but burdened with history and conflict, it shares many traits and comparable trajectories with its neighbors and countries of a similar background. Modern... -
A Concise History of Modern Cyprus: 1878-2009 by Heinz A Richter
$60.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447062121Author Heinz A RichterFormat HardbackPage Count 229Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 173mm *... -
Athens: A Cultural and Literary History by Gilles Munier
RRP: $19.35$11.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566565400Author Gilles MunierFormat PaperbackPage Count 257Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Social Organization of Exile: Greek Political Detainees in the 1930s by Margaret E. Kenna
RRP: $174.15$151.81Illustrated with prints from a unique archive of glass and celluloid negatives from the Aegean island of Anafi, this book deals with the life of people who were sent into internal exile under the Metaxas dictatorship (1936-1942). Like others before and... -
British Information and Cultural Policy in Greece, 1943–1950: Exercising Public Diplomacy in the Formative Early Cold War Years by Gioula Koutsopanagou
RRP: $77.40$67.98This book sheds new and revealing light on British cultural and information policies in Greece by unearthing previously unexamined or insufficiently examined primary sources. These sources draw an intricate picture of a complex moment when, in the ruins... -
Greece since 1945: Politics, Economy and Society by David H. Close 9780582356672
RRP: $79.97$76.63The book draws extensively on research on modern Greece in recent decades, and on the many perceptive commentaries on recent events in the Greek press. It adopts both an analytical and chronological approach and shows how Greece has both converged with... -
O City of Byzantium by Harry J. Magoulias 9780814317648
RRP: $109.65$104.48O City of Byzantium is the first English translation of a history which chronicles the period of Byzantine history from 1118 to 1207. The historian Niketas Choniates provides an eye-witness account of the inexorable events that led to the destruction of... -
Greece: From Resistance to Civil War by Marion Sarafis 9780851242903
$14.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851242903Author Marion SarafisFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books -
Biggleswade and the Great War by Kenneth Wood 9780752449661
RRP: $19.34$14.90This is the story of how the Great War affected Biggleswade through the experiences of those who fought and those who remained behind. The book does not follow the pattern of many in this field in giving basic details of the men from communities who were... -
Eleftherios Venizelos: Greece by Andrew Dalby 9781905791644
RRP: $16.76$11.60The Greek Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936) was one of the stars of the Paris Peace Conference, impressing many of the Western delegates, already possessed of a romantic view of 'the grandeur that was Greece', with his charm and oratorical... -
Crete Theseus and the Minotaur: All You Need to Know About the Island's Myths, Legends, and its Gods by Jill Dudley
$4.05Jill Dudley's series of island booklets is ideal for the tourist who would like to learn about the island's ancient past, such as King Minos' birth and why Theseus came to Knosses and how he killed the Minotaur. It includes the story of the birth of the... -
Survival of Titch in Hitler's Greece: A True Story by Lyn Rowland 9789602265833 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.55$2.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789602265833Author Lyn RowlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Efstathiadis GroupPublisher Efstathiadis GroupWeight(grams) 205g -
Greek Mythology: Captivating Stories of the Ancient Olympians and Titans by Ross Tanner 9781533498786
RRP: $13.21$10.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781533498786Author Ross TannerFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 by G F Abbott 9781508635970
RRP: $8.37$7.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781508635970Author G F AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Spartans: The True and Brutal Story of How the Spartans Become the Strongest Warriors in History by Patrick Auerbach 9781530661268
RRP: $20.16$16.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781530661268Author Patrick AuerbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Imagined Communities in Greece and Turkey: Trauma and the Population Exchanges under Ataturk by Emine Yesim Bedlek 9780755649068
$42.43In 1923 the Turkish government, under its new leader Kemal Ataturk, signed a renegotiated Balkan Wars treaty with the major powers of the day and Greece. This treaty provided for the forced exchange of 1.3 million Christians from Anatolia to Greece, in... -
Gifted Greek: The Enigma of Andreas Papandreou by Moneteagle Stearns 9781640123298
RRP: $30.95$24.07Gifted Greek is a reflection on twentieth-century Greek history and politics, as well as a character study of its first socialist prime minister, Andreas Papandreou. Monteagle Stearns witnessed the transformation of Papandreou from an affable American... -
The Greeks: A Global History by Roderick Beaton
RRP: $45.15$28.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541618299Author Roderick BeatonFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 898gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 162mm * 47mm -
Greece--a Jewish History by K. E. Fleming
RRP: $41.28$31.94K. E. Fleming's Greece--a Jewish History is the first comprehensive English-language history of Greek Jews, and the only history that includes material on their diaspora in Israel and the United States. The book tells the story of a people who for the... -
Divided Cyprus: Modernity, History, and an Island in Conflict by Yiannis Papadakis
RRP: $27.08$23.70"[U]shers the reader into the complexities of the categorical ambiguity of Cyprus [and]... concentrates... on the Dead Zone of the divided society, in the cultural space where those who refuse to go to the poles gather." -Anastasia Karakasidou, Wellesley... -
Greek to Me by Richard Clogg
$71.30The 1960s was a tumultuous period in the history of Greece, as its democracy fell under the forced establishment of a military dictatorship. The regime of the colonels was the culmination of national division and hostility between communist forces and... -
Eleftherios Venizelos: The Trials of Statesmanship by Paschalis M. Kitromilides
RRP: $39.99$37.53Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece 1910-1920 and 1928-1932, could be considered from many points of view the creator of contemporary Greece and one of the main actors in European diplomacy in the period 1910-1935. Yet the last book-length... -
Vrysaki: A Neighborhood Lost in Search of the Athenian Agora by Sylvie Dumont 9780876619698
RRP: $45.15$42.69Between 1931 and 1939, central Athens was transformed by the expropriation and demolition of the Vrysaki neighborhood at the foot of the Acropolis. In these few years, more than 5,000 inhabitants were displaced and 348 properties were torn down so that... -
Navel of the Earth: The ancient wisdom of Delphi by Marios Koutsoukos 9781540741288
RRP: $12.90$10.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540741288Author Marios KoutsoukosFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Greece from Junta to Crisis: Modernization, Transition and Diversity by Dimitris Tziovas 9780755642540
$37.86Shortlisted for the 2022 Runciman Award The recent economic crisis in Greece has triggered national self-reflection and prompted a re-examination of the political and cultural developments in the country since 1974. While many other books have... -
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Charles M G Husband 9780244882389
RRP: $6.45$5.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244882389Author Charles M G HusbandFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g -
A Traveller's History of Greece by Timothy Boatswain
$2.57In "A Traveller's History of Greece", the reader is provided with an authoritative general history of Greece from its earliest beginnings down to the present day. It covers in a clear and comprehensive manner the classical past, the conflict with Persia,... -
The Early Ottoman Peloponnese - A Study in the Light of an Annotated Editio Princeps of the TT10-1/4662 Ottoman Taxation Cadastre by Georgios C Liakopoulos 9781909942325
$52.63The volume `The Early Ottoman Peloponnese: A study in the Light of an Annotated editio princeps of the TT10-1/14662 Ottoman Taxation Cadastre (ca. 1460-1463)' is a revised version of the author's PhD thesis, conducted at Royal Holloway, University of... -
Becoming a Subject: Political Prisoners during the Greek Civil War, 1945-1950 by Polymeris Voglis 9781571813084
RRP: $127.71$103.81Focusing on the Greek Civil War (1946-1949), the last major conflict in Europe before the end of the Cold War, this study examines the political prisoners whose fate encapsulates the dramatic conflicts and contradictions of that dark era. Based on new... -
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Volume II: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence by Martin Bernal 9781978804272
RRP: $60.63$48.89Winner of the 1990 American Book Award What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the foundation of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he... -
Britain, Greece and the Colonels, 1967-74: Between Pragmatism and Human Rights by Konstantina Maragkou
RRP: $35.48$31.11The long history of Anglo-Greek relations has deservedly attracted much attention. One of its most controversial - yet least explored - phases was that spanning the Greek Colonels' seven-year military junta, from 1967-74. Drawing on a corpus of diverse,... -
Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece by Anthony Kaldellis
RRP: $38.64$30.52Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece collects funeral orations, encomia, and narrative hagiography. Together, these works illuminate one of the most obscure periods of Greek history-when holy men played central roles as the Byzantine administration... -
Arguing it Out: Discussion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium by Averil Cameron
RRP: $29.61$27.22In this book the author contends-and this is not a very widely held view-that Byzantium deserves to be considered an influential part of the broader development of Europe, even though its borders also reached out to the vast territories of Anatolia and... -
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Volume I: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985 by Martin Bernal 9781978804265
RRP: $60.63$48.89Winner of the 1990 American Book Award What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the foundation of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he... -
The Secrets of Troy by Izabela Miszczak 9788395313073
RRP: $11.93$9.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788395313073Author Izabela MiszczakFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Aslan Publishing HousePublisher Aslan Publishing HouseWeight(grams)...