Modern Greece by Thomas W. Gallant - 9781472567567

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Modern GreeceFrom the War of Independence to the Present\nAuthor(s): Thomas W. Gallant\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781472567567, 978-1472567567\nSynopsis\nModern 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 countrys 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:\n\n- new chapters on 19th-century nationalism and Boom to Bust in the Age of Globalization, [tel];\n- greater discussion of the late Ottoman context, Greeks outside of.