A Concise History of Greece (Cambridge Concise Histories)

✍ Scribed by Richard Clogg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 339
Edition: 3
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Now re-issued in a third, updated edition, this book provides a concise, illustrated introduction to the modern history of Greece, from the first stirrings of the national movement in the late eighteenth century to the present day. The current economic crisis has marked a turning point in the country's history. This third edition includes a new final chapter, which analyses contemporary political, economic and social developments. It includes additional illustrations together with updated tables and suggestions for further reading. Designed to provide a basic introduction, the first edition of this hugely successful Concise History won the Runciman Award for the best book on an Hellenic topic published in 1992 and has been translated into twelve languages.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Ottoman rule and the emergence of the Greek state 1770–1831
3. Nation building, the ‘Great Idea’ and National Schism 1831–1922
4. Catastrophe and occupation and their consequences 1923–49
5. The legacy of the civil war 1950–74
6. The consolidation of democracy and the populist decade 1974–90
7. Balkan turmoil and political modernisation Greece in the 1990s
8. Greece in the new Millennium from affluence to austerity
Biographies
The Royal Houses of Greece
Presidents
Tables
Key Dates
Guide To Further Reading
Index

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

A Concise History of Greece (Cambridge C

📁 A Concise History of Greece (Cambridge Concise Histories)

✍ Richard Clogg 📂 Library 📅 1992 🌐 English

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 knowled

A Concise History of Mexico (Cambridge C

📁 A Concise History of Mexico (Cambridge Concise Histories)

✍ Brian R. Hamnett 📂 Library 📅 1999 🌐 English

Modern Mexico, founded after Independence from Spain in 1821, was created out of a long and disparate historical inheritance that has constantly influenced its evolution. Tackling the complex and colorful history of Mexico is a formidable task. Brian Hamnett undertakes this challenge in his Concise

A Concise History of Bolivia (Cambridge

📁 A Concise History of Bolivia (Cambridge Concise Histories)

✍ Herbert S. Klein 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Bolivia is an unusual high-altitude society created by imperial conquests and native adaptations, and it remains today the most Indian of the American republics, yet it fully participates in the world economy. It has also seen the most social and economic mobility of Indian and mestizo populations i

A Concise History of Australia (Cambridg

📁 A Concise History of Australia (Cambridge Concise Histories)

✍ Stuart Macintyre 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and brought technolo

A Concise History of Mexico (Cambridge C

📁 A Concise History of Mexico (Cambridge Concise Histories)

✍ Brian R. Hamnett 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

This concise history looks at Mexico from political, economic, and cultural perspectives, portraying Mexico's struggle to break out of the colonial past and assert its viability as a sovereign state in a competitive world. In this third edition, Hamnett adds new material on Mexico's regional and int

A Concise History of Sweden (Cambridge C

📁 A Concise History of Sweden (Cambridge Concise Histories)

✍ Neil Kent 📂 Library 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

<span>Neil Kent's book sweeps through Sweden's history from the Stone Age to the present day. Early coverage includes Viking hegemony, the Scandinavian Union, the Reformation and Sweden's political zenith as Europe's greatest superpower in the seventeenth century, while later chapters explore the Sw