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

by Nicholas Doumanis and Antonis Liakos

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474410820
• ISBN13: 9781474410823
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"