Articles & Commentary
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The great story of a minor fighter
Vasilis Panagiotopoulos's monograph on Konstantinos Kantiotis
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The systemic anti-systemic nature of SYRIZA
Alexis Tsipras's presence at the congress of the Party of European Socialists, moreover without the capacity of prime minister, shows his desire for his party to join the European socialist group and the shift – at least in theory – of the "rebaptised" SYRIZA towards more centrist political searches.
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The history of the Sicilian mafia – The case of Corleone
The history of the Sicilian mafia – the case of Corleone, which became known through the films of Francis Ford Coppola
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The first genocide of the 20th century: Namibia 1904
Tens of thousands of members of the Herero and Nama tribes of the African country were exterminated by methods that would later become favourites of the Nazi regime
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Th. Tsakalotos: “We were wrong then.” M. Vafeiadis: “Probably, my general”
70 years since the end of the Civil War
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The Greece of the East and the Balkans
Two recent foreign publications enrich the historiography on the multiple identities through which the modern Greek state is analysed
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A journey through the Greece of wounds
A reissue of the classic edition by the great Modern Greek scholar who visited Greece in the period 1937 - 1947
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A celebration for everyone, without instrumentalisation
A few historical facts are worth recalling before the basic question. It is worth remembering that the National Assembly of 1843 decided on the dispute between autochthons and heterochthons: that is, on the right, or not, of the Greeks – who lived outside the borders of the newly built Greek state – to be its citizens and consequently to have corresponding rights.
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The history of a city, the history of an era
A literary, social and political portrait of Alexandria at one of the peak moments of its history, in a book that became a classic and is being reissued in a new translation
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The Mitsotakis government
The Mitsotakis government is perhaps the only government to come after ten years of crisis with the clearest implementation horizon: consolidating a sense of security, labour normality, investment and job creation, creating a normality for the country and its citizens, mainly meaning that we should not live constantly in an unrestrained hyper-politicisation of everything and in an endless extravaganza.
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The culture of defeat
Backgammon is a popular game that carries great wisdom when played by experienced players. Its wisdom lies in the fact that it carries within it a rationalism that is surprising for a game played in coffee houses.
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From Independence to Trump
The most recent work by the Harvard professor on the history of the USA, which has received rave reviews
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The dilemma of the elections
The conjuncture is a driving force for History. Kyriakos Mitsotakis often went against it, both during the intra-party process for electing the president of New Democracy and in the pre-election campaign of the recent European and regional elections.
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The Cyprus issue of Averoff and Seferis
Two recent publications examine, from different starting points and with different aims, the intra-bourgeois conflict and the rift within the negotiating team
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Advocacy for borders
The recent publication by the French diplomat "converses" with Régis Debray's "Éloge des frontières"
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Sp. Trikoupis and his era
The reconstruction of the historical context in which the personality of Spyridon Trikoupis was formed
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Inaugurations as a fetish
The Greek Prime Minister spent the Easter days in Crete and, taking the opportunity of his stay on the island, also inaugurated two projects: the Aposelemis dam in Heraklion, Crete.
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A biography for modern Greece
The leading Modern Greek scholar presents his own historiographical approach to the formation of the Greek state and its relationship with antiquity and Byzantium
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The identity of the new Europe
The diffusion of new dilemmas in Europe in recent years has radically changed the political map and at the same time has called into question givens and constants of the long peaceful period after the war. Brexit was perhaps the loudest example of this new confrontation, which extends beyond the political to the ideological and cultural level.
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…on 1821
Is there a reference book on 1821, a book that would pick up the thread from the first processes of forming the "conspiratorial" Revolution, with the Filiki Eteria as its main axis, its outbreak, the military events, the foreign intervention, and would reach as far as the founding of the Greek state in 1830?