Every trip to Greece means a unique experience, where myth, tradition and culture play a leading role. Greece, over the centuries, from antiquity to the present day, has received the influence of different cultures, the traces of which are clearly visible throughout the territory.
The Congress of Vienna, Kapodistrias, the Friendly Society, the Greek World, Kolokotronis and 1821 are the milestones studied in this volume of the Two Hundred Years since the Revolution series.
Catholic schools and female education in 19th-century Greece
This book refers to the education provided in Greece by the schools of the Catholic monastic educational orders through the example of the school of the Order of Saint Joseph of the Apparition in Athens in the second half of the 19th century.
An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present
Max Boot
The book Invisible Armies presents a completely original account of war, which shows that, far from being an exception, loosely organized guerrilla or guerilla warfare has been the dominant form of military conflict throughout history.
Untold stories from the Resistance and the occupation
Christopher Woodhouse
The second book by the British military, politician and intellectual C. M. Woodhouse (1917-2001), “One Omen”, was published in English only once, in 1950, and included twelve ethnographic stories of his adventures in Greece. However, as it turned out, there were not twelve stories, since two more were later discovered, which Greek readers have the opportunity to read for the first time in the appendix to this edition.
Few collective adventures have marked our culture as strongly as the adventure of the Jesuits, who over a period of five centuries unfolded their activities throughout the world.
Few collective adventures have marked our culture as strongly as the adventure of the Jesuits, who over a period of five centuries unfolded their activities throughout the world.
The volume, which is a co-publication of the Hellenic Parliament Foundation and the Institute of Historical Research/NHRF, presents all the party formations represented in Parliament during the period 1844-1967, with the aim of capturing the continuity of the party phenomenon and highlighting its gradual mutations.
Eleven historians trace the course of the struggle
This book is a collective volume in which prominent historians aptly approach the multifaceted event of the National Struggle, the starting point of our national entity.
Already in antiquity, Isocrates, a great rhetorician, spoke of the Greeks as a cultural entity, to which all those who shared classical values belonged. In the 20th century, Sir Moses Finlay, an expert on classical culture, emphasized that the Greeks of antiquity constituted a nation.
Omissions and secret diplomacy in 19th century Greece
Eleftherios Kantzinos
Twenty years: 40 different governments, a new Constitution, the first referendum, the transformation of the monarchy into a kingdom and the Senate into a Parliament, the first modern-style elections, the first Special Court for a prime minister, an uprising that overthrew a revolution, and the 48-hour war that was not a war.
The liberator of the Peloponnese. His correspondence with Governor I. Kapodistrias
Xeni Baloti
Xeni Baloti's book – essential for understanding both French and Greek history – summarizes two important aspects: the story of a "child" of the French Revolution and the completion of the Greek Revolution in 1828-1829 by the French expeditionary force.