The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 20th and Early 21st Centuries

Global Perspectives

Antonis Liakos, Nicholas Doumanis

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781474410823
• eBook ISBN: 9781474410854
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Modern History
• Index: History

This volume deals with a tumultuous yet transformative era in Greek history. During the twentieth century, most Greeks abandoned the countryside for the cities or the expanding global diaspora. Greek and Cypriot societies became urbanised, secularised and more 'western'. Since the Balkan Wars they have also lurched from crisis to crisis, having experienced two destructive war decades (1912–1922 and 1940–1949), the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 and the economic crises of the 2010s. Focusing on the relationship between state and society, as well as on Greeks' place in the wider world, this book considers how Greeks have engaged with global change and the impact of international factors on their lives.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• Note on transliterations
• Preface and acknowledgements
• Series Editor’s preface
• 1. Introduction: The Greeks at the beginning of the twentieth century
• 2. The ‘long First World War’ (1912–1922)
• 3. The wider Greek world I: The end of the age of empire
• 4. State and society during the interwar period (1922–1940)
• 5. The Occupation: Greece under the Axis (1941–1944)
• 6. The Civil War (1945–1949)
• 7. The post-war era (1950–1974)
• 8. The wider Greek world II: From nationalism to multiculturalism
• 9. Springtime for democracy: Metapolitefsi (1974–1985)
• 10. European integration and globalisation (1985–2008)
• 11. The Crisis years (2008–2021)
• Guide to further reading
• Bibliography
• Index