Modern Greece

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Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to KnowRG is the go-to resource for understanding both the present turmoil and the deeper past that has brought the country to where it is now.

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Full title :Modern Greece / Stathis N. Kalyvas.

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Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to KnowRG is the go-to resource for understanding both the present turmoil and the deeper past that has brought the country to where it is now.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) : : maps

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199948789, 019994878X
oclc:ocn910935512
LC Classification:DF802
Dewey Decimal:949.507

Cover -- Modern Greece What Everyone Needs to Know® -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I What is Greece? -- What is this book about? -- Why Greece now? -- What is the weight of ancient Greece on the present? -- What have Greeks thought about themselves? -- In what sense is Greece a pioneer? -- What is Greece's lesser-known record of achievements? -- How to reconcile disasters and achievements? -- II Emergence -- How did modern Greece come into being? -- What was the Greek nationalist movement? -- Where did Greek nationalism come from? -- Who were the nationalists?

How did Greece become a nation of small farmers? -- Was Greece a failed state? -- What was the state of the economy? -- What led to successive defaults? -- How did Greece build an infrastructure? -- How did Greece double up its territory? -- How was Greece transformed? -- IV Turmoil -- What was the National Schism? -- What happened in the aftermath of World War I? -- What was the Anatolian disaster? -- What was the impact of the population exchange? -- What was the impact of the Great Depression? -- How did communism emerge in Greece? -- What was the Metaxas regime?

How did Greece enter World War II? -- Wha…