Koliopoulos / Veremis Modern Greece

A History since 1821
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-1483-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: A New History of Modern Europe (NWME)

Modern Greece: A History since 1821 is a chronologicalaccount of the political, economic, social, and cultural history ofGreece, from the birth of the Greek state in 1821 to 2008 by twoleading authorities.
* Pioneering and wide-ranging study of modern Greece, whichincorporates the most recent Greek scholarship
* Sets the history of modern Greece within the context of a broadgeo-political framework
* Includes detailed portraits of leading Greek politicians
* Provides in-depth considerations on the profound economic andsocial changes that have occurred as a result of Greece's EUmembership

Autoren/Hrsg.

Koliopoulos, John S.

Veremis, Thanos M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Map
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Greek War of Independence (1821-30)
2. Statecraft and Irredentism (1831-62)
3. A New Dynasty and Lingering Problems (1862-97)
4. Distribution of Land and the Consolidation of the SegmentarySociety
5. The Twentieth Century: An Overture
6. The Venizelist Decade (1910-20)
7. The Asia Minor Debacle (1922-3)
8. The Turbulent Interwar Period (1923-41)
9. Occupation and Conflict (1941-9)
10. The Post-Civil-War Period (1949-67)
11. Return to Democracy (1974-2009)
12. Opposite Poles in Politics. Karamanlis vs. Papandreou
13. Southern and Southeastern Europe: The Greek View
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

John S. Koliopoulos is Professor of Modern Greek History atthe University of Thessaloniki. He has written widely on nineteenthand twentieth-century Greece, including Brigands with a Cause:Brigandage and Irredentism in Modern Greece, 1881-1912 (1987)and Plundered Loyalties (1999).
Thanos M. Veremis is Professor of Political Historyat the University of Athens, and is President of the Greek NationalCouncil for Education. His previous publications includeGreece's Balkan Entanglement (1994), The Military inGreek Politics (1997), and Action without Foresight: WesternIntervention in Yugoslavia (2002).
The authors have collaborated on Greece: A ModernSequel (2002), a thematic overview of scholarly debatesconcerning the history of modern Greece.