Articles & Commentary

  1. LiFO Review: "Revolutionary Spring" (Christopher Clark)

    “Revolutionary Spring”: History is also written by the defeated

    The distinguished Cambridge historian, Christopher Clark, presents an ambitious synthesis, approaching the uprisings of 1848 in Europe as a single, albeit deeply heterogeneous, phenomenon that reshaped the relationship between society, state and political power.

  2. Ta Nea Review: "Greece and the Middle East Question 1945-1981" (Manolis Koumas)

    Between Israel and the Arab world

    Greek foreign policy in the Middle East is the subject of historian Manolis Koumas' latest book

  3. Ta Nea Review: "The Horde" (Marie Favereau)

    Mongols beyond stereotypes

  4. Ta Nea Review: "Tiempos recios" and "La Fiesta del Chivo" (Mario Vargas Llosa)

    Fiction against tyranny

    Three recent publications come to remind us of the Peruvian writer's long confrontation with power, violence, and political propaganda.

  5. To Vima Review: "The Sorrow of One" et al. (Stelios Ramfos)

    The anguish of self-knowledge

  6. Ta Nea Review: "International History of the Twentieth Century" (Joseph A. Maiolo)

    How the 20th century shaped today’s world

    The Greek translation of one of the most important editions of international history combines narrative and geopolitical analysis, connecting major events with current international balances.

  7. Ta Nea Review: "Ionian Republicanism" (Dimitris D. Arvanitakis)

    What did “freedom” mean in the Ionian Islands in the 1800s?

    The Zakynthian historian completes a very important research course on the importance of the French presence in the Ionian Sea and its decisive role in shaping political modernity in Greece.

  8. Ta Nea Review: "Sculpting Beauty" (Vassilis Makridimas)

    Vasilis Makridimas: The doctor who wrote under a different name

    A study that goes beyond literature, sheds light on the unknown writer Errico Tombros and a social class that remained outside the historical gaze

  9. Ta Nea Review: "The Adventure of Ideas" (Kostas Karavidas)

    Who writes collective memory?

  10. Ta Nea Review: "Wooden Eyes" et al. (Carlo Ginzburg)

    The “prophet” of microhistory

  11. Ta Nea Review: "E. H. Gonatas" (Fragkiski Ampatzopoulou)

    The writer who was like no other

  12. Ta Nea Review: "About 'That Great Idea of ​​the Fatherland'" (Spyridon G. Ploumidis)

    The roots and “weapons” of the Great Idea

    A study on the formation and evolution of the central national vision of Hellenism during the 19th century.

  13. Ta Nea Review: "Pedagogy of War" (Antonis L. Smyrnaios)

    War as an extreme pedagogical condition

  14. Ta Nea Review: "History of Modern Egypt" (P. G. Vatikiotis)

    Egypt: reform and authoritarianism

  15. Ta Nea Review: "High Albania" (Mary Edith Durham)

    A British woman in Northern Albania in 1900

  16. Ta Nea Review: "The interpreters" (George Giannakopoulos)

    Southeastern Europe through the eyes of the British

    The latest book by historian George Giannakopoulos examines the formation of British thinking in the field of foreign policy through the prism of southeastern Europe during the period 1870–1930.

  17. Ta Nea Review: "In the years of violence" (Vasso Sirinidou)

    Violence and the State in the Revolution

  18. Ta Nea Review: "Seferis - Lorentzatos Letters (1948 - 1968)" (George Seferis)

    A game of chess for Greekness

  19. Ta Nea Review: «Histoire de la Rome antique» (Yann Le Bohec)

    The ultimate Roman history textbook

    A sober, dense and pedagogically oriented work, designed primarily for higher education students

  20. Ta Nea Review: "The Arab-Israeli Conflict" (Andreas Bouroutis)

    The Middle East without “camps”