A Concise History of GreeceCambridge University Press, 20 juni 2002 - 291 sidor This book provides a concise, illustrated introduction to the history of modern Greece, from the first stirrings of the national movement in the late eighteenth century to the present day. It is designed to provide a basic introduction for general and academic readers with little or no prior knowledge of the subject. A Concise History of Greece has been revised and now includes a new final chapter that covers Greek history and politics to the present day. Richard Clogg is a Fellow of St. Anthony's College, Oxford and was formerly Professor of Modern Balkan History, University of London. His previous publications include Anglo-Greek Attitudes (Palgrave, 2000) and Parties and Elections in Greece (Duke University Press, 1988). He is currently writing A Concise History of Romania for the Cambridge Concise Histories Series. |
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Ottoman rule and the emergence of the Greek state 17701831 | 7 |
Nation building the Great Idea and National Schism 18311922 | 46 |
Catastrophe and occupation and their consequences 192349 | 98 |
The legacy of the civil war 195074 | 142 |
The consolidation of democracy and the populist decade 197490 | 166 |
Balkan turmoil and political modernization Greece in the 1990s | 201 |
Biographies | 239 |
The royal houses of Greece | 259 |
Presidents | 260 |
Tables | 261 |
Key dates | 269 |
Guide to further reading | 276 |
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Sida 2 - Greece's entry would be seen as a 'fitting repayment by the Europe of today of the cultural and political debt that we all owe to a Greek heritage almost 3000 years old'. If Sir lan's rhetoric is overblown it none the less has a certain elegance. The same cannot be said of that of Neil Kinnock, the leader of the Labour Party. In promising the return of the Elgin marbles to Greece he has declared that they are as Greek as Wembley Stadium is English...