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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2014
Print publication year:
2013
Online ISBN:
9781139507516

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Now re-issued in a third, updated edition, this book provides a concise, illustrated introduction to the modern history of Greece, from the first stirrings of the national movement in the late eighteenth century to the present day. The current economic crisis has marked a turning point in the country's history. This third edition includes a new final chapter, which analyses contemporary political, economic and social developments. It includes additional illustrations together with updated tables and suggestions for further reading. Designed to provide a basic introduction, the first edition of this hugely successful Concise History won the Runciman Award for the best book on an Hellenic topic published in 1992 and has been translated into twelve languages.

Reviews

Review of previous edition:'Succinct, accurate and graphic … Readers who go no further than this concise history will have at their disposal the basic knowledge to understand Greece and what made it what it is today.'

Source: The Times Literary Supplement

Review of previous edition:'A vigorous, well-written … and occasionally humorous view of Greek history since 1770, remarkable in the amount of information and context it provides.'

Diana Wright Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Review of previous edition:'Anyone who wants an accurate and lively narrative of Greece's political history could not do better than this book.'

Source: The Times Literary Supplement

Review of previous edition:'It is a highly accessible and readable introduction to Greek history as well as a useful reference source on modern Greece.'

Source: European Legacy Journal

Review of previous edition:‘Time for only one book? Make it Richard Clogg's A Concise History of Greece.'

Michael Kerr Source: ‘The Best Summer Holiday Reads', The Telegraph

Review of previous edition:‘Professor Clogg's slim and lively volume intersperses an authoritative account of the last 200 years of Greek history with a sensitive analysis of the Greek national character.'

John Torode Source: The Independent

Review of previous edition:'… provides a thorough insight to what made Greece the way it is today … Written in a readable style rather than as a reference book, it has enough detail for the scholar and clarity for those with a more general interest in Greek history.'

Source: Greek-o-File

Review of previous edition:‘Far and away the best summary of the subject.'

Source: Insight Guides: Greece

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Contents

Guide To Further Reading
Bibliography
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Veremis, Thanos and Dragoumis, Mark, Greece, World Bibliographical Series, vol. xvii (Oxford/Santa Barbara, 1998), revised and amplified edition.
Kitromilides, Paschalis M. and Evriviades, Marios, Cyprus, World Bibliographical Series, vol. xxviii (Oxford/Santa Barbara: Clio Press, 1982; revised and amplified edition 1995)
General
Greece, 3 vols. (London: Admiralty, Naval Intelligence Division, 1944–5) (Geographical Handbook Series)
Dodecanese (London: Admiralty, Naval Intelligence Division, 1943) (Geographical Handbook Series)
Campbell, John and Sherrard, Philip, Modern Greece (London: Ernest Benn, 1968)
Clogg, Richard, A short history of modern Greece, 2nd edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986)
Dakin, Douglas, The unification of Greece 1770–1923 (London: Ernest Benn, 1972)
Kourvetaris, Yorgos A. and Dobratz, Betty A., A profile of modern Greece in search of identity (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987)
Gallant, Thomas, Modern Greece (London: Arnold, 2001)
Koliopoulos, John and Veremis, Thanos, Modern Greece: a history since 1821 (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
Doumanis, Nicholas, A history of Greece (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
Boatswain, Timothy and Nicolson, Colin, A traveller’s history of Greece (London: The bookHaus, 2011)
Hamilakis, Yannis, The nation and its ruins: antiquity, archaeology, and national imagination in Greece (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
Miller, William, Greek life in town and country (London: George Newnes, 1905)
Woodhouse, C. M., Modern Greece. A short history (London: Faber and Faber, 1999)
Ottoman Rule and the Struggle for Independence
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Zakythinos, D. A., The making of modern Greece: from Byzantium to independence (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1976)
Runciman, Steven, The Great Church in captivity: a study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the eve of the Turkish conquest to the Greek war of independence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968)
Clogg, Richard, ed. and trans., The movement for Greek independence 1770–1821: a collection of documents (London: Macmillan, 1976)
Henderson, G. P., The revival of Greek thought 1620–1830 (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1971)
Guthenke, Constanze, Placing modern Greece: the dynamics of romantic Hellenism 1770–1840 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
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Brewer, David, Greece, the hidden centuries: Turkish rule from the fall of Constantinople to Greek independence (London: I. B. Tauris, 2012)
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Crawley, C. W., The question of Greek independence: a study of British policy in the Near East, 1821–1833 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1930)
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Woodhouse, C. M., The battle of Navarino (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1965)
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Independent Greece 1830–1923
Bower, Leonard and Bolitho, Gordon, Otho Ⅰ, king of Greece: a biography (London: Selwyn and Blount, 1939)
Petropulos, John Anthony, Politics and statecraft in the kingdom of Greece, 1833–43 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968)
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Economopoulou, Marietta, Parties and politics in Greece 1844–55 (Athens: 1984)
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Dontas, Domna N., Greece and the great powers 1863–75 (Thessaloniki: Institute for Balkan Studies, 1966)
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Koliopoulos, John S., Brigands with a cause. Brigandage and irredentism in modern Greece 1821–1912 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987)
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Senisik, Pinar, The transformation of Ottoman Crete: revolts, politics and identity in the late nineteenth century (London: I. B. Tauris, 2011)
Augustinos, Gerasimos, Consciousness and history: nationalist critics of Greek society, 1897–1914 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977)
Dakin, Douglas, The Greek struggle in Macedonia 1897–1913 (Thessaloniki: Institute for Balkan Studies, 1966)
Papacosma, S. Victor, The military in Greek politics: the 1909 coup d’état (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1977)
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Leon, George B., Greece and the great powers, 1914–17 (Thessaloniki: Institute for Balkan Studies, 1974)
Leon, George B., The Greek socialist movement and the First World War: the road to unity (New York: Columbia University Press, 1976)
Petsalis-Diomidis, N., Greece at the Paris Peace Conference 1919 (Thessaloniki: Institute for Balkan Studies, 1978)
Augustinos, Gerasimos, The Greeks of Asia Minor: confession, community and ethnicity in the nineteenth century (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1992)
Doumanis, Nicholas, Before the nation: Muslim–Christian coexistence and its destruction in late Ottoman Anatolia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)
Smith, Michael Llewellyn, Ionian vision: Greece in Asia Minor, 1919–22 (London: Allen Lane,1973, 1998)
Toynbee, Arnold J., The western question in Greece and Turkey: a study in the contact of civilisations (London: Constable, 1922)
Housepian, Marjorie, Smyrna 1922: the destruction of a city (London: Faber and Faber, 1972)
Psomiades, Harry J., The eastern question, the last phase: a study in Greek–Turkish diplomacy (Thessaloniki: Institute for Balkan Studies, 1968)
Greece 1924–49
Mavrogordatos, George, Stillborn republic: social coalitions and party strategies in Greece 1922–36 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983)
Pentzopoulos, Dimitri, The Balkan exchange of minorities and its impact upon Greece (The Hague: Mouton, 1962)
Clark, Bruce, Twice a stranger: how mass expulsion forged modern Greece and Turkey (London: Granta Books, 2006)
Eddy, Charles B., Greece and the Greek refugees (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1931)
Miller, William, Greece (London: Ernest Benn, 1928)
Mears, Elliot Grinnell, Greece today: the aftermath of the refugee impact (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1929)
Kontogiorgi, Elisabeth, Population exchange in Greek Macedonia: the rural settlement of refugees 1922–1933 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006)
Mazower, Mark, Greece and the inter-war economic crisis (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991)
Koliopoulos, John S., Greece and the British connection 1935–41 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977)
Cervi, Mario, The hollow legions: Mussolini’s blunder in Greece 1940–1 (London: Chatto and Windus, 1972)
Willingham, Matthew, Perilous commitments: the battle for Greece and Crete 1940–41 (Staplehurst, Kent: Spellmount, 2005)
Higham, Robin, Diary of a disaster. British aid to Greece, 1940–1 (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1986)
Sweet-Escott, Bickham, Greece: a political and economic survey 1939–53 (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1954)
Woodhouse, C. M., The struggle for Greece 1941–9 (London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1976)
Hionidou, Violetta, Famine and death in occupied Greece, 1941–1944 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Mazower, Mark, Inside Hitler’s Greece: the experience of occupation, 1941–44 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993)
Lecoeur, Sheila, Mussolini’s Greek island: fascism and the Italian occupation of Syros in World War II (London: I. B. Tauris, 2009)
Hondros, John, Occupation and resistance. The Greek agony 1941–4 (New York: Pella, 1983)
Rogers, Anthony, Churchill’s folly: Leros and the Aegean. The last great defeat of the Second World War (London: Cassell, 2003)
Clogg, Richard, ed., Bearing gifts to Greeks: humanitarian aid to Greece in the 1940s (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan / St Antony’s College, 2008)
Ogden, Alan, Sons of Odysseus: SOE heroes in Greece (London: Bene Factum Publishing, 2012)
Iatrides, John O., Revolt in Athens: the Greek communist ‘second round’ 1944–5 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972)
Alexander, George, The prelude to the Truman doctrine. British policy in Greece 1944–7 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982)
McNeill, William Hardy, The Greek dilemma: war and aftermath (London: Gollancz, 1947)
Richter, Heinz, British intervention in Greece. From Varkiza to civil war, February 1945 to August 1946 (London: Merlin Press, 1986)
Close, David, The origins of the Greek civil war (London: Longman, 1995)
Stavrakis, Peter J., Moscow and Greek communism 1944–9 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989)
Mazower, Mark, ed., After the war was over: reconstructing the family, nation, and state in Greece, 1943–1960 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000)
Carabott, Philip and Sfikas, Thanasis D., The Greek civil war: essays on a conflict of exceptionalism and silences (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004)
Danforth, Loring M. and van Boeschoten, Riki, Children of the Greek civil war: refugees and the politics of memory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Voglis, Polymeris, Becoming a subject: political prisoners during the Greek civil war (Oxford: Berghahn, 2002)
Jones, Howard, ‘A new kind of war’: America’s global strategy and the Truman Doctrine in Greece (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989)
Koliopoulos, John S., Plundered loyalties: Axis occupation and civil strife in Greek West Macedonia, 1941–1949 (London: Hurst and Company, 1999)
Wittner, Lawrence S., American intervention in Greece, 1943–9 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982)
Iatrides, John O. and Wrigley, Linda, eds., Greece at the crossroads: the civil war and its legacy (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995)
Greece since 1950
McNeill, William H., The metamorphosis of Greece since World War Ⅱ (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978)
Close, David, Greece since 1945: politics, economy and society (Harlow: Pearson Education, 2002)
Stefanidis, Ioannis, Stirring the Greek nation: political culture, irredentism and anti-Americanism in post-war Greece, 1945–1967 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007)
Hatzivassiliou, Evanthis, Greece and the Cold War: frontline state, 1952–1967 (London: Routledge, 2006)
Vryonis, Speros, Jr, The mechanism of catastrophe: the Turkish pogrom of September 6–7, 1955, and the destruction of the Greek community of Istanbul (New York: Greekworks.com, 2005)
Legg, Keith R., Politics in modern Greece (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1969)
Clogg, Richard, Parties and elections in Greece: the search for legitimacy (London: C. Hurst, 1987)
Draenos, Stan, Andreas Papandreou: the making of a Greek democrat and political maverick (London: I. B. Tauris, 2012)
Nafpliotis, Alexandros, Britain and the Greek Colonels: accommodating the Junta in the Cold War (London: I. B. Tauris, 2013)
Miller, James E., The United States and the making of modern Greece. History and power: 1950–1974 (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009)
Woodhouse, C. M., The rise and fall of the Greek Colonels (London: Grafton, 1985)
Kassimeris, Christos, Greece and the American embrace: Greek foreign policy towards Turkey, the US and the western alliance (London: I. B. Tauris, 2009)
Mouzelis, Nicos, Modern Greece: facets of underdevelopment (London: Macmillan, 1978)
Couloumbis, Theodore A., The United States, Greece and Turkey: the troubled triangle (New York: Praeger, 1983)
Spourdalakis, Michalis, The rise of the Greek socialist party (London: Routledge, 1988)
Kassimeris, George, Europe’s last red terrorists: the revolutionary organization 17 November (London: Hurst and Company, 2001)
Pryce, Vicky, Greekonomics: the euro crisis and why politicians don’t get it (London: Biteback Publishing, 2012)
Cyprus
Purcell, H. D., Cyprus (London: Ernest Benn, 1969)
Hill, George, A history of Cyprus, vol. iv, The Ottoman province, the British colony 1571–1928 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952)
Yiangou, Anastasia, Cyprus in World War II: politics and conflict in the eastern Mediterranean (London: I. B. Tauris, 2010)
Xydis, Stephen, Cyprus: conflict and conciliation 1954–8 (Columbus: Ohio State University, 1967)
Xydis, Stephen, Cyprus: reluctant republic (The Hague: Mouton, 1973)
Crawshaw, Nancy, The Cyprus revolt: an account of the struggle for union with Greece (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1978)
Holland, Robert, Britain and the revolt in Cyprus 1954–1959 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998)
Kyriakides, Stanley, Cyprus: constitutionalism and crisis government (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968)
Markides, Kyriacos C., The rise and fall of the Cyprus republic (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977)
Bryant, Rebecca, Imagining the modern: the cultures of nationalism in Cyprus (London: I. B. Tauris, 2004)
Greeks Abroad
Clogg, Richard, ed., The Greek diaspora in the twentieth century (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999)
Saloutos, Theodore, The Greeks in the United States (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964)
Moskos, Charles C., Greek Americans: struggle and success (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1989)
Tamis, Anastasios M., The immigration and settlement of Macedonian Greeks in Australia (Melbourne: La Trobe University Press, 1994)
Chimbos, Peter D., ed., The Canadian Odyssey: the Greek experience in Canada (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1980)
Kitroeff, Alexander, The Greeks in Egypt, 1919–1937: ethnicity and class (London: Ithaca Press, 1989)
Tziovas, Dimitris, ed., Greek diaspora and migration since 1700: society, politics and culture (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009)
Religion
Fleming, K. E., Greece: a Jewish history (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008)
Lewkowicz, Bea, The Jewish community of Salonika: history, memory, identity (London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2006)
Clogg, Richard, ed., Minorities in Greece: aspects of a plural society (London: Hurst and Company, 2002)
Roudometof, Victor and Makrides, Vasilios N., eds., Orthodox Christianity in 21st-century Greece: the role of religion in culture, ethnicity and politics (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010)

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