Greece

Greece: A Short History of a Long Story presents a comprehensive overview of the history of Greece by exploring the continuity of Greek culture from its Neolithic origins to the modern era. Tells the story of Greece through individual personalities that...

In 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999162187Author Kathleen VailFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Writer's LifelinePublisher Writer's LifelineWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This book is a comprehensive and dispassionate analysis of the intriguing Macedonian Question from 1878 until 1949 and of the Macedonians (and of their neighbours) from the 1890s until today, with the two themes intertwining. The Macedonian Question was...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789602262269Author KEANFormat HardbackImprint Efstathiadis GroupPublisher Efstathiadis GroupWeight(grams) 130g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860542834Author Michael AngoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

During the dictatorship of the Colonels in Greece, there was an attempt at self-transformation into some form of civilian rule in 1973: the so-called 'Markezinis experiment', named after the politician who assumed the task of heading the transition...

This book explores the origins, conduct, and failure of Greek Cypriot nationalists to achieve the unification of Cyprus with Greece. Andrew Novo addresses the anti-colonial struggle in the context of: the competition for the nationalist narrative in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988309033Author Adam Alexander HaviarasFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Eagles and Dragons PublishingPublisher Eagles and Dragons...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447058995Author Michalis N MichaelFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 175mm *...

This book presents a social and cultural history of collective memory in modern Greece during the first century of state independence, contributing to the debate over the relationship between memory and identity.It discusses how modern Greek society...

Who is Macedonian? For nearly 150 years, two peoples have fought over that question. Historically the land of Philip II and Alexander the Great, Aristotle, Mount Olympus and the Greek gods, Macedonia boasts an impressive cultural heritage that both...

Indispensable for all serious students of modern Greece and essential reading for anyone interested in Greek politics, economy, foreign relations and culture. The contributors, from four different countries, combine empathy and objectivity in their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851242897Author Marion SarafisFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

Historians have long speculated on the role played by the Enlightenment in the rise of nationalism in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. The present volume offers a new perspective on this subject through an examination of the Greek Enlightenment, its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578610320Author Theodore P GeorgasFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Theodore P. GeorgasPublisher Theodore P. GeorgasWeight(grams) 254g

The Asia Minor Campaign remains one of the most disastrous episodes of modern Greek history. The retreat of the Greek army after being routed by Turkish nationalist forces in Anatolia in 1922 was a catastrophic event. Yet, as this meticulously researched...

This work offers a comprehensive examination of how Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) -- a great philologist, pedagogue, and theologian of the Reformation -- used Greek patristic sources throughout his extensive career. The Cappadocian Fathers (here...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447067218Author Dr Alexander Papageorgiou-VenetasFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 9930g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447059893Author Glafkos CleridesFormat HardbackPage Count 170Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551641881Author David W. TandyFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books

Radical Resilience relates narratives of Athenians struggling to survive the impoverishment of relentless austerity measures, compounding emergencies, and human disasters of successive national crises in Greece since 2010. Drawing on eight years of...

Radical Resilience relates narratives of Athenians struggling to survive the impoverishment of relentless austerity measures, compounding emergencies and human disasters of successive national crises in Greece since 2010. Drawing on eight years of...

This livret links legend and archaeology by writing and place, but does not neglect Crete's other women. Over the centuries they were subject to numerous violent changes of overlord - Mycenean, Roman, Byzantine, Saracen, Venetian, Ottoman - but somehow...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884022152Author Angeliki E. LaiouFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research...

In 1951-52, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization established the Southern Flank, a strategy for the defense of the eastern Mediterranean in the Cold War involving Italy, Greece, and Turkey. Among its many aims, the Southern Flank sought to mobilize...

While the archaeological legacies of Greece and Cyprus are often considered to represent some of the highest values of Western civilization-democracy, progress, aesthetic harmony, and rationalism-this much adored and heavily touristed heritage can...

The Greek city-state of Athens is believed to have developed the first known democracy around 500 B.C. Modern Greece has been a democracy since the toppling of a military junta in 1974. Since then, the New Democracy (ND) party and the Pan Hellenic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772888408Author Peter Oluf BrondstedFormat HardbackPage Count 87Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press

In 1947, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens commissioned a colour movie (Triumph over Time) to accompany its fundraising campaign. Directed by the archaeologist Oscar Broneer and produced by numismatist Margaret Thompson with the aid of...

"...Meticulously researched...Thoroughly documented with copious footnotes, a shronology, and extensive bibliography, this work is recommended for academic libraries." -Library Journal Focusing on questions that seek to illuminate vital aspects...

This compelling book chronicles a remarkable American educational undertaking that spanned two continents and survived three wars. William McGrew recounts the challenges faced by Anatolia College's leaders and the solutions they found to achieve their...

Located on the southern-most tip of the Balkan peninsula in Europe's southeast, Greece is a small country of some 11 million people. And while few people have a longer history than the Greeks, Modern Greece is a fairly young country, having been founded...

The Revival of Political Hesychasm in Contemporary Orthodox Thought focuses on the retrieval of the spiritual theology of the Orthodox Church and how it is being used in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to develop a political ideology...

K. 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...

Experiencing Dominion pushes contemporary literature on historical anthropology in a new direction by moving the discussion away from an emphasis on a simple polarity between hegemony and resistance, and instead focusing on the shared interactions...

A fully-outfitted edition of Prokopios' late Antique masterpiece of military history and ethnography--for the 21st-century reader. "At last . . . the translation that we have needed for so long: a fresh, lively, readable, and faithful rendering of...

Between 1941 and 1944, the Germans and the Italians imposed a brutal occupation of Greece. This, as well as the outbreak of famine, drove many Greeks to join a variety of resistance movements in the mountains. The British government anticipated the...

This book is not another history of the Cyprus problem. It is an analysis of the forces and policies which led to the traumatic experience of 1974 and the geographical separation of the two largest Cypriot communities (the Greek Cypriots and the Turkish...