Politics: a regime to suit the nation; government and people. Institutions: the church; the military; the economy. Education: the mighty Greek school. Society: peasants; the middle class; migrants and refugees; heroes and heroic deeds; crime and impunity. Ideology: fashioning the new nation; demarcating the past; the return of hellenes; Greeks and others. Europe in Greek foreign policy: national geography a northern boundary; the frontier beyond; war for land.
John S. Koliopoulos is Professor of ModernGreek History at theUniversity ofThessaloniki; ThanosVermis is Professorof Political History atAthens University.
'A compelling analysis of the complexities of the struggle for
independence in the 1820sand of the impassioned debates as to the
form of government appropriate to a regenerated Greece. ...
Particular strengths of the book are the discussion of the
symbiotic relationship between banditry, irredentism and politics
in the nineteenth century and the insight offered into the
afterlife of the Macedonian struggle in northern Greece in the
1940s.'
*Richard Clogg,Times Literary Supplement*
'An original reflection on the history of modern Greece ... The
authors dispose of pious fallacies without constructing new ones;
they raise questions rather than provide answers –sure signs of the
historian's critical mind at work.'
*Stevan Pavlowitch, Journal of South East European and Black Sea
Studies*
'Meticulously researched . . . thoroughly documented . . .
recommended.'
*Library Journal*
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