Overview
Modern Greece is an updated and enhanced edition of a classic survey of Greek history since the beginning of the 19th century. Giving equal weighting to social, political and diplomatic aspects, it offers detailed coverage of the formation of the Greek nation state, the global Greek diaspora, the country’s relationships with Europe and the United States and a range of other topics, including women, rural areas, nationalism and the Civil War, woven together in a nuanced and highly readable narrative. Fresh material and new pedagogical features have been added throughout, most notably: - new chapters on 19th-century nationalism and ‘Boom to Bust in the Age of Globalization, 1989-2013’; - greater discussion of the late Ottoman context, Greeks outside of Greece and the international background to the Greek state formation; - revisions to take account of recent scholarship, Greekscholarship ; - new timelines, maps, illustrations, charts, figures and primary source boxes; - an updated further reading section and bibliography. Modern Greece is a crucial text for anyone looking to understand the complex history of this now troubled nation and its place in the Balkans, Europe and the modern globalized world.
Full Product Details
Author: Thomas W. Gallant (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.580kg
ISBN: 9781472567567
ISBN 10: 1472567560
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 25 August 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
With an authoritative and highly readable prose that testifies to Gallant's long-established mastery of his field, the newly expanded edition of Modern Greece presents an extremely timely and balanced account of social and political history in the country from the 19th century to the present day. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand Greece and its people. Sappho Xenakis, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Hands down, the most lucid, comprehensive, and readable history we have of Modern Greece. This completely new edition -- with a new framing, new material on Greece's past breathless decade, and new conclusions -- shows Gallant's great versatility as a truly contemporary historian. The book also provides something few modern Greek histories do: a critical awareness of broader contexts. The Ottoman Empire, Europe, the forces of Globalization -- Gallant presents Greece both on its own terms and within the multiple frames that have shaped and continue to shape it. Highly recommended for the expert and newcomer alike. Katherine Fleming, New York University, USA Thomas Gallant's Modern Greece is by far the best concise history of Modern Greece. The recent updated edition is in fact an almost completely new book, not only covering the more recent events in Greek history but also providing much needed background from the Ottoman period. The book has been further enhanced with new maps, images, and text boxes, providing the reader with a taste of the primary materials historians use. This book will be an invaluable source to students of Modern Greek history. It is approachable, insightful, well-designed, enjoyable, and yet academically thorough at the same time. Exdoxios Doxiadis, Simon Fraser University, Canada Modern Greece by Tom Gallant is a successful example of how to compose a national history without writing a national biography. The great upheavals in historiography during the last few decades have challenged how we write national histories. In this book, Gallant adopts the perspectives and the methods of transnational, social and cultural history to explicate how a distinctive society in the Eastern Mediterranean and Southern Europe responded to the challenges of the making of the modern world over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. Antonis Liakos, University of Athens, Greece
With an authoritative and highly readable prose that testifies to Gallant’s long-established mastery of his field, the newly expanded edition of Modern Greece presents an extremely timely and balanced account of social and political history in the country from the 19th century to the present day. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand Greece and its people. * Sappho Xenakis, Birkbeck, University of London, UK * Hands down, the most lucid, comprehensive, and readable history we have of Modern Greece. This completely new edition -- with a new framing, new material on Greece's past breathless decade, and new conclusions -- shows Gallant's great versatility as a truly contemporary historian. The book also provides something few modern Greek histories do: a critical awareness of broader contexts. The Ottoman Empire, Europe, the forces of Globalization -- Gallant presents Greece both on its own terms and within the multiple frames that have shaped and continue to shape it. Highly recommended for the expert and newcomer alike. * Katherine Fleming, New York University, USA * Thomas Gallant’s Modern Greece is by far the best concise history of Modern Greece. The recent updated edition is in fact an almost completely new book, not only covering the more recent events in Greek history but also providing much needed background from the Ottoman period. The book has been further enhanced with new maps, images, and text boxes, providing the reader with a taste of the primary materials historians use. This book will be an invaluable source to students of Modern Greek history. It is approachable, insightful, well-designed, enjoyable, and yet academically thorough at the same time. * Exdoxios Doxiadis, Simon Fraser University, Canada * Modern Greece by Tom Gallant is a successful example of how to compose a national history without writing a national biography. The great upheavals in historiography during the last few decades have challenged how we write national histories. In this book, Gallant adopts the perspectives and the methods of transnational, social and cultural history to explicate how a distinctive society in the Eastern Mediterranean and Southern Europe responded to the challenges of the making of the modern world over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. * Antonis Liakos, University of Athens, Greece * A skilful narrative of the history of Greece from the insurrection against the Ottoman Empire in 1821 to the rise of SYRIZA. * European Review of History *
Author Information
Thomas W. Gallant is Professor and Nicholas Family Endowed Chair in Modern Greek History at UC San Diego, USA. He is the author of Experiencing Dominion: Culture, Identity and Power in the British Mediterranean (2002) and editor of the ten-volume Edinburgh History of the Greeks.
