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Triumph Over Time (North American edition): The American School of Classical Studies at Athens in Post-War Greece by Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan 9780876619636
RRP: $26.33$25.39In 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... -
Greece: A Modern Sequel by John S. Koliopoulos 9780814747667
$176.05"...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... -
Educating across Cultures: Anatolia College in Turkey and Greece by William McGrew 9780810895164
RRP: $87.75$77.79This 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... -
Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece by Dimitris Keridis 9780810859982
RRP: $208.65$182.23Located 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: The Political Hesychasm of John Romanides and Christos Yannaras by Daniel P. Payne 9780739147207
RRP: $224.25$196.44The 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... -
Greece--a Jewish History by K. E. Fleming 9780691102726
$154.75K. 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: Culture, Identity, and Power in the British Mediterranean by Thomas W. Gallant 9780268028015
RRP: $161.85$141.39Experiencing 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... -
The Wars of Justinian by Prokopios 9781624661716
RRP: $157.93$130.14A 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... -
The British and the Greek Resistance, 1936-1944: Spies, Saboteurs, and Partisans by Andre Gerolymatos 9781498564083
RRP: $204.75$179.65Between 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... -
The Rhetoric of the Cyprus Problem by Iakovos Menelaou 9786156405067
$167.52This 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... -
Thetis 15 (2008): Mannheimer Beitrage Zur Klassischen Archaologie Und Geschichte Griechenlands Und Zyperns by Heinz A Richter 9783447059947
RRP: $81.90$80.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447059947Author Heinz A RichterFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 7660g -
A Functional Cyprus Settlement: The Constitutional Dimension by Tim Potier 9783447059848
RRP: $124.80$119.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447059848Author Tim PotierFormat HardbackPage Count 764Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 386g -
Under Stalin's Shadow: A Global History of Greek Communism by Nikos Marantzidis 9781501768347
RRP: $54.58$47.07Under Stalin's Shadow examines the history of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) from 1918 to 1956, showing how closely national Communism was related to international developments. The history of the KKE reveals the role of Moscow in the various... -
Reclaiming the Past: Argos and Its Archaeological Heritage in the Modern Era by Jonathan M. Hall 9781501760532
RRP: $85.80$74.76Reclaiming the Past examines the post-antique history of Argos and how the city's archaeological remains have been perceived and experienced since the late eighteenth century by both local residents and foreign visitors to the Greek Peloponnese. The... -
Citizenship and the Nation-State in Greece and Turkey by Thalia Dragonas 9780415543545
RRP: $105.28$91.40Citizenship 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 countries.The... -
The Byzantines by Guglielmo Cavallo 9780226097923
RRP: $54.60$53.41For more than a thousand years, Byzantium flourished at the crossroads of the Eastern and Western worlds. But who were the people of the first modern civilized state? What features distinguished them from earlier civilizations, and what cultural... -
Readings in Greek History: Sources and Interpretations by D. Brendan Nagle 9780199978458
RRP: $194.98$78.96An ideal reader for courses in Greek history, Greek civilization, and Western civilization, this comprehensive collection of more than 180 historical source documents covers major aspects of Greek civilization from the Archaic Age through the end of the... -
The Greek Civil War: Strategy, Counterinsurgency and the Monarchy by Spyridon Plakoudas 9781784537807
RRP: $234.00$233.06The Greek Civil War (1946-1949) was one of the few instances in the post-World War II era of a clear-cut and permanent victory by right-wing government forces over an insurgent communist movement. Spyridon Plakoudas here explores the factors which... -
Capital's Greek Cage by George Caffentzis 9781570272851
RRP: $19.48$13.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570272851Author George CaffentzisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint AutonomediaPublisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 128g -
Greece: A Short History of a Long Story, 7,000 BCE to the Present by Carol G. Thomas 9781118631904
RRP: $132.50$84.81Greece: 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... -
The Campaign of the Falieri and Piraeus in the Year 1827 by C. W. J. Eliot 9780876614051
RRP: $58.50$53.72This book presents the diary of Captain Thomas Douglas Whitcombe, a young English gunnery officer who in 1827 participated as a volunteer in an expedition to relieve the Turkish siege of the Acropolis of Athens. Covering the period from winter 1826 to... -
Eleftherios Venizelos: The Trials of Statesmanship by Paschalis M. Kitromilides 9780748624782
RRP: $195.00$178.07Eleftherios 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... -
Working in Greece and Turkey: A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation-States, 1840-1940 by Leda Papastefanaki 9781789206968
RRP: $257.40$206.70As was the case in many other countries, it was only in the early years of this century that Greek and Turkish labour historians began to systematically look beyond national borders to investigate their intricately interrelated histories. The studies in... -
Xenocracy: State, Class, and Colonialism in the Ionian Islands, 1815-1864 by Sakis Gekas 9781785332616
RRP: $208.65$168.03Of the many European territorial reconfigurations to result from the Congress of Vienna, the Ionian State remains among the least understood. Xenocracy offers a much-needed account of the region during the ensuing half-century of oversight by Great... -
Crossing the Aegean: An Appraisal of the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey by Renee Hirschon 9781571817679
RRP: $193.05$156.45Following the defeat of the Greek Army in 1922 by nationalist Turkish forces, the 1923 Lausanne Convention specified the first internationally ratified compulsory population exchange. It proved to be a watershed in the eastern Mediterranean, having... -
Becoming a Subject: Political Prisoners during the Greek Civil War, 1945-1950 by Polymeris Voglis 9781571813091
RRP: $54.50$44.03Focusing 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... -
East Cretan White-on-Dark Ware by Philip P. Betancourt 9780934718578
RRP: $115.44$109.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934718578Author Philip P. BetancourtFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & AnthropologyPublisher... -
The Cretan Collection in the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania: v. 1: Minoan Objects Excavated from Vasilike, Pseira, Sphoungaras, Priniatikos Pyrgos and Other Sites by Philip P. Betancourt 9780934718462
RRP: $115.44$108.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934718462Author Philip P. BetancourtFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania Press -
The Free and the Brave: American Philhellenes and the "Glorious Struggle of the Greeks" (1776-1866) by Maria Georgopoulou 9789609994552
RRP: $78.00$67.22This bilingual catalogue (in English and Greek) accompanied an exhibition organized by the Gennadius Library on the occasion of the bicentenary of the Greek Revolution of 1821 to explore the relations and connections between Greece and the United States... -
The Greek Military Dictatorship: Revisiting a Troubled Past, 1967-1974 by Othon Anastasakis 9781800731745
RRP: $208.65$168.03From 1967 to 1974, the military junta ruling Greece attempted a dramatic reshaping of the nation, implementing ideas and policies that left a lasting mark on both domestic affairs and international relations. Bringing together leading scholars from a... -
Experiencing Dominion: Culture, Identity, and Power in the British Mediterranean by Thomas W. Gallant
RRP: $44.83$39.80Experiencing 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... -
Under Stalin's Shadow: A Global History of Greek Communism by Nikos Marantzidis
RRP: $210.60$182.13Under Stalin's Shadow examines the history of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) from 1918 to 1956, showing how closely national Communism was related to international developments. The history of the KKE reveals the role of Moscow in the various... -
Venizelos: The Making of a Greek Statesman 1864-1914 by Michael Llewellyn-Smith
$83.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197586495Author Michael Llewellyn-SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA -
Greece since 1945: Politics, Economy and Society by David H. Close
RRP: $263.25$230.65The 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... -
Europe in Modern Greek History by Kevin Featherstone
RRP: $68.25$60.92Europe', 'Europeanness' and 'European' have been important themes in the history of modern Greece, from the establishment of the new state in 1832 to the sovereign debt crisis of 2010. 'Europe' has served as key reference points in questions of identity,... -
The Macedonian Question and the Macedonians: A History by Alexis Heraclides
RRP: $77.98$68.37This 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... -
Nomodeiktes: Greek Studies in Honor of Martin Ostwald by Ralph M. Rosen
$196.66Fifth-century Athens has inspired generations of students and scholars. Its citizens' profound discoveries in literature, philosophy, and politics - to name but a few areas - have shaped the thinking of much of Western thought and have provided many of... -
Greek Civil War, The by David H. Close
RRP: $243.75$233.49The Greek Civil War (1943--50) was a major conflict in its own right, developing out of the rivalry between communist and conservative partisans for control of Greece as the Axis forces retreated at the end of the Second World War. Spanning the... -
Byzantium: Church, Society and Civilization Seen Through Contemporary Eyes by Deno John Geanakoplos
RRP: $87.75$85.04Deno John Geanakoplos here offers a prodigious collection of source materials on the Byzantine church, society, and civilization (many translated for the first time into English), arranged chronologically and topically, and knit together with an... -
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity by Professor Margaret Poulos
RRP: $120.90$102.90The image of a woman bearing arms is a potent symbol of modern Greece's nation-building conflicts. Margaret Poulos traces the influence of this image on Greek feminist discourse from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1970s and 1980s. The study begins...