Author

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.

Metaichmio

1814-1821: The preparation of a revolution

Protagonists, Events, Circumstances

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.

En Plo

“Enclosed” education

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.

Translation

Metaichmio

Israel

What Went Wrong

The leading Israeli-American intellectual boldly and insightfully analyzes his homeland's dramatic turn to violence, nationalism, and exclusion.

Metaichmio

The Titans of the Twentieth Century

How They Made History and the History They Made

A revealing portrayal of the tumultuous 20th century through the portraits of its eight most influential leaders.

Metaichmio

Contested Lands

A History of the Middle East From the First World War to the Present

A captivating narrative of the most important historical developments in the Middle East since World War I.

Oxy

Hitler’s Horses

The Incredible True Story of the Detective who Infiltrated the Underworld

A shocking story of art trafficking that led to the revelation of one of the greatest mysteries in the art world.

Liberal Books

Invisible Armies

An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present

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.

Metaichmio

What does Israel fear from Palestine?

A shocking text, from the perspective of a Palestinian intellectual, that helps to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Kyriakos Papadopoulos

One omen

Untold stories from the Resistance and the occupation

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.

Polis

Jesuits

The Conquerors (1540-1773)

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.

Editor

Polis

Jesuits

The Conquerors (1540-1773)

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.

Collective publications

Metaichmio

Calendar 2024

My most personal book

51 authors write about a book that defined them.

K. & M. Ant. Stamoulis

Ioannis Kolettis

Political action and depictions

Contribution to a collective volume

Foundation of the Hellenic Parliament

Historical dictionary of Greek parliamentary parties, 1844-1967

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.

Hellenic Foundation for Books and Culture

The revolution of 1821

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.

Introductions & Afterwords

Papazisis Publications

The concept of nation in Greek history

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.

Metaichmio Publications

From Otto to Charilaos Trikoupis

Omissions and secret diplomacy in 19th century Greece

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.

Vivlopoleion Tis Estias

Nicolas-Joseph Maison

The liberator of the Peloponnese. His correspondence with Governor I. Kapodistrias

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.

En Plo

Memoirs of Theodoros Kolokotronis

Narrative of events of the Greek race from 1770 to 1836

People called us crazy. If we weren't crazy, we wouldn't have made the Revolution...