A Concise History of Greece

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Cambridge University Press, 20 juin 2002 - 291 pages
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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 knowledge of the subject. A Concise History of Greece has been revised and now includes a new final chapter that covers Greek history and politics to the present day. Richard Clogg is a Fellow of St. Anthony's College, Oxford and was formerly Professor of Modern Balkan History, University of London. His previous publications include Anglo-Greek Attitudes (Palgrave, 2000) and Parties and Elections in Greece (Duke University Press, 1988). He is currently writing A Concise History of Romania for the Cambridge Concise Histories Series.
 

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This book is very easy to read and it's a great introduction to the main events that formed Greece, as we know it today. Sometimes it's really concise and it left me wanting to know more. But I think that's an advantage, both for me and the book. Consulter l'avis complet

Review: A Concise History of Greece (Cambridge Concise Histories)

Avis d'utilisateur  - Zachary Taylor - Goodreads

Clogg offers a captivating historical narrative of the modern history of Greece from its earliest years as a fledging state to the beginning of the twenty-first century. His history, while by no means ... Consulter l'avis complet

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Page 131 - ... Let us settle about our affairs in the Balkans. Your armies are in Rumania and Bulgaria. We have interests, missions and agents there. Don't let us get at cross-purposes in small ways. So far as Britain and Russia are concerned, how would it do for you to have ninety per cent predominance in Rumania, for us to have ninety per cent of the say in Greece, and go fifty-fifty about Yugoslavia?
Page 245 - According to my judgment, the French Revolution and the doings of Napoleon opened the eyes of the world. The nations knew nothing before, and the people thought that kings were gods upon the earth, and that they were bound to say that whatever they did was well done.
Page 47 - The Greek kingdom is not the whole of Greece, but only a part, the smallest and poorest part. A native is not only someone who lives within this Kingdom, but also one who lives in loannina, in Thessaly, in Serres, in Adrianople, in Constantinople, in Trebizond, in Crete, in Samos and in any land associated with Greek history or the Greek race...
Page 2 - Greece's entry would be seen as a 'fitting repayment by the Europe of today of the cultural and political debt that we all owe to a Greek heritage almost 3000 years old'. If Sir lan's rhetoric is overblown it none the less has a certain elegance. The same cannot be said of that of Neil Kinnock, the leader of the Labour Party. In promising the return of the Elgin marbles to Greece he has declared that they are as Greek as Wembley Stadium is English...
Page 130 - The moment was apt for business, so I said, "Let us settle about our affairs in the Balkans. Your armies are in Rumania and Bulgaria. We have interests, missions, and agents there. Don't let us get at crosspurposes in small ways.
Page 47 - Smyrna, in Trebizond, in Crete, in Samos and in any land associated with Greek history or the Greek race. . . There are two main centres of Hellenism: Athens, the capital of the Greek kingdom, [and] 'The City' [Constantinople], the dream and hope of all Greeks.
Page 53 - A Greece truly independent is an absurdity. Greece is Russian or she is English; and since she must not be Russian, it is necessary that she be English
Page 28 - Thourios and in the work that concerns us, the New Political Constitution of the Inhabitants of Rumeli, Asia Minor, the Mediterranean Islands, Moldavia and Wallachia.
Page 62 - Lucia, with its poverty and very primitive communications at the end of the nineteenth and in the early twentieth century. The plantation communities of Surinam and Guiana were similarly isolated on their narrow coastal strips.
Page 26 - Colling, who brought their favorites into a new era of fame and popularity during the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first of the nineteenth. The Collings were shrewd advertisers as well as good breeders.

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À propos de l'auteur (2002)

Richard Clogg has been Lecturer in Modern Greek History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies and King's College, University of London, Reader in Modern Greek History at King's College, London and Professor of Modern Balkan History in the University of London. From 1990 to 2005 he was a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford and is now an Emeritus Fellow of the College. He has written extensively on Greek history and politics from the eighteenth century to the present.

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