The Greeks: The Land and People Since the War

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Penguin UK, May 3, 2012 - Social Science - 304 pages
Our perception of Greece conjures up many potent images: an ancient civilization brought alive by fable, hillsides dotted with sunbaked villages, lazy beaches lapped by crystal blue waters, the warmth and humour of its people. Yet if we look behind the picture-postcard imagery, the painful contradictions of the country begin to emerge. James Pettifer's classic text on Greece, now revised and updated with extensive new material, argues that it is vital to understand this country's present by looking at the far-reaching effects of its troubled past. He surveys the roots of Greek social, economic and political realities with intelligence and convincing clarity.
 

Contents

9 Athens and the Urban Crisis
10 Agriculture
Oppression and Freedom
12 Food Drink and Material Life
Words Music
The Domestic Fortress
Paradise Threatened?
PART THREE

Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
Introduction
PART ONE
Epirus and the North
A New Democracy?
3 A European Destiny? Greece and the European Union
4 The Advent of PASOK
New Democracy without Karamanlis
The Simitis Years
PART TWO
The Visit to Paradise
8 Archaeology
Albanians Vlachs and Sarakatsans
17 Thrace and Cyprus
18 The Macedonian Background
19 The Diaspora
20 A Balkan or a European Future?
PART FOUR
20002008
22 From Greek Crisis to European Crisis 20092012
Some Background Reading
He just wanted a decent book to read 
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About the author (2012)

Professor James Pettifer is a member of the Oxford University History Faculty and St Cross College. He is a participant in the work of other academic institutions, principally the Historisches Seminar, Osteuropaische Geschichtein Zurich University,Switzerland.

He was born in Hereford, UK in 1949 and educated at Kings School Worcester, Hertford College Oxford and the Free University of West Berlin. He has been a senior member of St Antony's College Oxford and Visiting Professor at the Institute of Balkan Studies, Thessalonica and was a Honorary Fellow of the Department of Greek and Byzantine Studies, Birmingham University, UK.

From 2002 to 2006 he was a Visiting Professor in the State University in Tetovo,FYROM/Republic of Macedonia. In 2007 he was Stanley.J.Seeger Research Fellow at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. From 2000 until its abolition in 2010 he also worked in the Conflict Studies Research Centre (RAB)of the Defence Academy of the UK. He is the author of a number of well known books on the Balkans and regional politics and history.

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