A concise history of Greece / Richard Clogg.

By:

Clogg, Richard, 1939- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge concise historiesEdition: Third editionDescription: xv, 321 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 22 cmISBN:

9781107612037
9781107032897

Subject(s):

Greece -- History -- 1821-

DDC classification:

949.5 23

LOC classification:

DF802 .C57 2013

Contents:

Introduction -- Ottoman rule and the emergence of the Greek state, 1770-1831 -- Nation building, the 'great idea' and national schism, 1831-1922 -- Catastrophe and occupation and their consequences, 1923-49 -- The legacy of the civil war, 1950-74 -- The consolidation of democracy and the populist decade, 1974-90 -- Balkan turmoil and political modernization: Greece in the 1990s -- Greece in the new millennium: from affluence to austerity.

Summary: "All countries are burdened by their history, but the past weighs particularly heavily on Greece. It is still, regrettably, a commonplace to talk of 'modern Greece' and of 'modern Greek' as though 'Greece' and 'Greek' must necessarily refer to the ancient world. The burden of antiquity has been both a boon and a bane. The degree to which the language and culture of the ancient Greek world was revered throughout Europe (and, indeed, in the United States where some of the founding fathers were nurtured on the classics) during the critical decades of the national revival in the early nineteenth century was a vital factor in stimulating in the Greeks themselves, or at least in the nationalist intelligentsia, a consciousness that they were the heirs to a heritage that was universally admired"--

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-309) and index.

"All countries are burdened by their history, but the past weighs particularly heavily on Greece. It is still, regrettably, a commonplace to talk of 'modern Greece' and of 'modern Greek' as though 'Greece' and 'Greek' must necessarily refer to the ancient world. The burden of antiquity has been both a boon and a bane. The degree to which the language and culture of the ancient Greek world was revered throughout Europe (and, indeed, in the United States where some of the founding fathers were nurtured on the classics) during the critical decades of the national revival in the early nineteenth century was a vital factor in stimulating in the Greeks themselves, or at least in the nationalist intelligentsia, a consciousness that they were the heirs to a heritage that was universally admired"--