The Modern Greeks

Author : Petros T. Pizanias
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527562486

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The Making of the Modern Greeks by Petros T. Pizanias Pdf

How is a society historically formed? How are its historical references, its economy, its social structures, and its language shaped? This book explores these general questions with reference to the case of the Modern Greeks. Who were they? How did they re-emerge on the historical stage after centuries of obscurity since the decline of Antiquity? How was the phenomenon described as New Hellenism historically shaped? What were the historical processes that enabled the New Hellenes to differentiate themselves from the Ottoman system of rule and become distinct from the other Balkan national and cultural groups? This text examines the emergence and formation of various social groups and populations that shaped the historical phenomenon of New Hellenism. It shows that the Modern Greeks were historically formed by way of successive differentiations from the Ottoman frames without initially appearing as homogenous. The book scrutinizes the making of all such differentiations for every social group in each separate geographical area. The activities of these groups in each area eventually formed a distinct economic and cultural space, within the confines of the Ottoman Empire, the space of the New Hellenism.

Author : Georgios Arabatzis,Sotiris Mitralexis,Georgios Steiris
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443892827

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The Problem of Modern Greek Identity by Georgios Arabatzis,Sotiris Mitralexis,Georgios Steiris Pdf

The question of Modern Greek identity is certainly timely. The political events of the previous years have once more brought up such questions as: What does it actually mean to be a Greek today? What is Modern Greece, apart from and beyond the bulk of information that one would find in an encyclopaedia and the established stereotypes? This volume delves into the timely nature of these questions and provides answers not by referring to often-cited classical Antiquity, nor by treating Greece as merely and exclusively a modern nation-state. Rather, it approaches the subject in a kaleidoscopic way, by tracing the line from the Byzantine Empire to Modern Greek culture, society, philosophy, literature and politics. In presenting the diverse and certainly non-dominant approaches of a multitude of Greek scholars, it provides new insights into a diachronic problem, and will encourage new arguments and counterarguments. Despite commonly held views among Greek intelligentsia or the worldwide community, Modern Greek identity remains an open question – and wound.

Author : Roderick Beaton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226809793

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Greece by Roderick Beaton Pdf

For 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 identity for itself that is at once Greek and modern? This book reveals the remarkable achievement, during the last three hundred years, of building a modern nation on the ruins of a vanished civilization—sometimes literally so. This is the story of the Greek nation-state but also, and more fundamentally, of the collective identity that goes with it. It is not only a history of events and high politics; it is also a history of culture, of the arts, of people, and of ideas. Opening with the birth of the Greek nation-state, which emerged from encounters between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire, Roderick Beaton carries his story into the present moment and Greece’s contentious post-recession relationship with the rest of the European Union. Through close examination of how Greeks have understood their shared identity, Beaton reveals a centuries-old tension over the Greek sense of self. How does Greece illuminate the difference between a geographically bounded state and the shared history and culture that make up a nation? A magisterial look at the development of a national identity through history, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation is singular in its approach. By treating modern Greece as a biographical subject, a living entity in its own right, Beaton encourages us to take a fresh look at a people and culture long celebrated for their past, even as they strive to build a future as part of the modern West.

Author : Stathis Kalyvas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199948796

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Modern Greece by Stathis Kalyvas Pdf

The entire world turned its focus toward the troubled nation, waiting for the possibility of a Greek exit from the European Monetary Union and its potential to unravel the entire Union, with other weaker members heading for the exit as well. The effects of Greece's crisis are also tied up in the global arguments about austerity, with many viewing it as necessary medicine, and still others seeing austerity as an intellectually bankrupt approach to fiscal policy that only further damages weak economies. In Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know, Stathis Kalyvas, an eminent scholar of conflict, Europe, and Greece combines the most up-to-date economic and political-science findings on the current Greek crisis with a discussion of Greece's history.

Author : Frederick Sylvester North Douglas
Publisher : London : J. Murray
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1813
Category : Greece
ISBN : UOM:39015063614401

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An Essay on Certain Points of Resemblance Between the Ancient and Modern Greeks by Frederick Sylvester North Douglas Pdf

Author : Andrew Robert Burn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Greece
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119346356

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The Modern Greeks by Andrew Robert Burn Pdf

Author : Ilias Kolokouris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 1734018941

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Modern Greek for Classicists by Ilias Kolokouris Pdf

Ilias Kolokouris's Modern Greek for Classicists is a reading companion for those who have already had some exposure to the Greek world - be it a solid foundation in Ancient Greek, some knowledge of the Greek alphabet acquired while studying Latin, or even just a few set phrases memorized to communicate with locals during a trip to Greece. This book aims to build upon such foundations to expand access to the fascinating culture, literature, and society of Modern Greece. Modern Greek for Classicists is structured as a graded reader, with fictional narratives in Modern Greek, followed by comprehension and discussion questions designed to facilitate language acquisition. Each dialogue has a limited set of vocabulary, and the grammar moves from the more simple to the more complex. Animated videos accompany and expand upon the main story. How does this book teach Modern Greek? Incremental repetition and progressively more complex readings play a key role in our pedagogical approach. We believe that, when highly motivated learners are given confidence in their abilities and an environment with low levels of anxiety, they will be better equipped for success in second language acquisition. This is why we want each lesson to be a playful, enjoyable activity. Most importantly, this book is designed to feel yours. You can read it at your own pace, whenever and wherever you prefer, with whomever you wish. As you go on to use this book, you will notice that learning Modern Greek is both feasible and inspiring.

Author : Professor David Ricks,Professor Roderick Beaton
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409480273

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The Making of Modern Greece by Professor David Ricks,Professor Roderick Beaton Pdf

Every Greek and every friend of the country knows the date 1821, when the banner of revolution was raised against the empire of the Ottoman Turks, and the story of 'Modern Greece' is usually said to begin. Less well known, but of even greater importance, was the international recognition given to Greece as an independent state with full sovereign rights, as early as 1830. This places Greece in the vanguard among the new nation-states of Europe whose emergence would gather momentum through to the early twentieth century, a process whose repercussions continue to this day. Starting out from that perspective, which has been all but ignored until now, this book brings together the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore the contribution of characteristically nineteenth-century European modes of thought to the 'making' of Greece as a modern nation. Closely linked to nationalism is romanticism, which exercised a formative role through imaginative literature, as is demonstrated in several chapters on poetry and fiction. Under the broad heading 'uses of the past', other chapters consider ways in which the legacies, first of ancient Greece, then later of Byzantium, came to be mobilized in the construction of a durable national identity at once 'Greek' and 'modern'. The Making of Modern Greece aims to situate the Greek experience, as never before, within the broad context of current theoretical and historical thinking about nations and nationalism in the modern world. The book spans the period from 1797, when Rigas Velestinlis published a constitution for an imaginary 'Hellenic Republic', at the cost of his life, to the establishment of the modern Olympic Games, in Athens in 1896, an occasion which sealed with international approval the hard-won self-image of 'Modern Greece' as it had become established over the previous century.

Author : Thomas W. Gallant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472567574

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Modern Greece by Thomas W. Gallant Pdf

"An authoritative one-volume social and political history of modern Greece covering the period from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day"--

Author : David Holden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4181142

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Greece Without Columns by David Holden Pdf

Author : Theodore Pagivlas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 6185024756

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Holy Madness of Modern Greeks by Theodore Pagivlas Pdf

Author : Costas Stassinopoulos
Publisher : American Hellenic Institute
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Greece
ISBN : 1889247014

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Modern Greeks by Costas Stassinopoulos Pdf

A gripping story of struggle and triumph in Greece in 1940s concentrating on three critical phases of Greek history: The war against the Italians and Germans; the national resistance, and the civil war that followed. Stassinopoulos fought in the heroic resistance against the fascist invaders and vividly recounts the sacrifice, honor, and successes of the Greek armed forces and the Greek guerrillas drew the admiration of the free world and kindled hope for Allied powers victory.

Author : Roderick Beaton,David Ricks
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0754664988

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The Making of Modern Greece by Roderick Beaton,David Ricks Pdf

In 1821, when the banner of revolution was raised against the empire of the Ottoman Turks, the story of 'Modern Greece' is usually said to begin. Less well known is the international recognition given to Greece as an independent state with full sovereign rights, as early as 1830, placing Greece in the vanguard among the new nation-states of Europe. This book brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore the contribution of characteristically 19th-century European modes of thought to the 'making' of Greece as a modern nation. It focuses on the themes of nationalism, romanticism and the uses of the Classical and Byzantine past in the construction of a durable national identity at once 'Greek' and 'modern'.

Author : John S. Koliopoulos,Thanos M. Veremis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1444314831

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Modern Greece by John S. Koliopoulos,Thanos M. Veremis Pdf

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

Author : Roderick Beaton
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571353583

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The Greeks by Roderick Beaton Pdf

'Monumental . . . A wonderful book.' Peter Frankopan'Magisterial . . . remarkable.' Guardian'Erudite and highly readable . . . An authoritative guide to the countless ways in which Greek words and ideas have shaped the modern world.' Financial TimesThe Greeks is a story which takes us from the archaeological treasures of the Bronze Age Aegean and myths of gods and heroes, to the politics of the European Union today. It is a story of inventions, such as the alphabet, philosophy and science, but also of reinvention: of cultures which merged and multiplied, and adapted to catastrophic change. It is the epic, revelatory history of the Greek-speaking people and their global impact told as never before.