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Author:   Huw Halstead
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.394kg
ISBN:  

9780367583651

ISBN 10:   0367583658
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents List of tables and figures;Acknowledgements;Part I: Introduction Introduction;Greeks without Greece: overview;Terminology;Methodology and sources;Structure of the book;1 – The Greeks of Turkey;Istanbul;Imbros;Greece;Part II: Local Homelands and National Belonging 2 – Patrída as a local metaphor;Patrída as a local metaphor;Through the looking glass: continuity, invention, imposition;The ‘usable past’: the everyday life of national identity;3 – More than simply Hellenic: Belonging and inclusive particularity;The Greeks of Turkey: a diaspora community?;The Helleno-Romaic dilemma;‘The Romiós is one thing and the Hellene is another’;Inclusive particularity (1): Polítes and Byzantium;Inclusive particularity (2): Imvriótes and Ancient Athens;Expatriate protoselves;Conclusions;4 – Without barbarians: Turks and Elladítes;Ethnicity as an ‘interpretive prism’;Good Turk, bad Turks;Nominal and experiential Turks;Privileged knowledge (1): the ‘bad Turks’;Privileged knowledge (2): the ‘good Turk’;Conclusions;Part III: National and Transnational Histories 5 – Everyday multidirectional memory;Holocaust memory;Mediated memory;An everyday history of multidirectional memory;6 – ‘The Third Fall’: Commemorations and national history;‘The 300 who stayed’: thinking analogically;Commemorating the 1955 Istanbul Riots;Commemorating the 1453 Fall of Constantinople;1453 and 1821;1453 and 1955;Transcending the national paradigm: the Federation of Constantinopolitans;Conclusions;7 – ‘Kristallnacht in Constantinople’: Parallel and analogous histories Parallel histories: Armenians and Kurds;Analogous histories: Jews and Nazis;Asymmetric histories: the Western Thracian minority;From ‘pogrom’ to ‘genocide’: classifying the persecution of the Greeks of Turkey;Transcultural memory in personal testimony;Transnational nationalism?;Conclusions;Part IV: Homelands New and Old 8 – Welcome to Gökçeada: The Greek return to Imbros;Between ‘New Imbros’ and ‘Old Imbros’;Confronting ‘the real Imbros’: challenges and prospects;‘Native tourists’: belonging in the Imvrian return;‘When you return to your patrída’: the second generation;Conclusions;Conclusions Inclusive particularity;The past as a critical mirror;Excavating and backfilling the past;Everyday multidirectionality;Appendix: Tables Table 1 – List of interviewees: Polítes;Table 2 – List of interviewees: Imvriótes;Table 3 – List of interviewees: Second generation;Table 4 – Decline in Greek-speaking/Orthodox Christian populations of Istanbul and Imbros;Glossary

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Dr Huw Halstead is a research fellow at the University of St Andrews. He was previously the Macmillan-Rodewald Postdoctoral Student at the British School at Athens (2018), an associate lecturer in the Department of History and a member of the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past (IPUP) at the University of York (2017–2018), and the postdoctoral research fellow in history at the Humanities Research Centre, University of York (2016–2017). His research focuses on displacement, memory, and public history with a particular emphasis on the Mediterranean world. He is director of the pedagogic project Personalising History, which uses oral history to develop educational resources to teach about the Holocaust in secondary education.

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