Articles & Commentary

  1. Ta Nea Review: "The Merchant and War Fleet During the Greek Revolution (1821-1831)" (Collective work)

    The fleet that decided a Revolution

    A detailed volume that examines the naval superiority of the Greeks, which contributed so decisively to the rupture of 1821, and the fleet's part both in the fighting and in the financial support

  2. Ta Nea Review: "Crete in the Years of the Occupation (1941-1945)" (Giannis Skalidakis)

    New paths for the Battle of Crete

    The historian and political scientist puts under the microscope the lesser-known occupation universe on the island, with a rich and blunt listing of the names of the protagonists and their roles...

  3. Ta Nea Review: "The Peloponnesian Senate: A Political Institution of the Greek Revolution" (Collective work)

    A small revolution within the Revolution

    The collective volume of the National Hellenic Research Foundation on the Peloponnesian Senate, an institution formed as early as 1821, which reflected the different tendencies in the revolutionary field

  4. Ta Nea Review: "Venizelos and the Challenge of Greater Greece. Events and Reassessments" (Nikolaos Petsalis-Diomidis)

    Eleftherios Venizelos of an “unknown” historian

    The three-volume work entitled "Venizelos and the Challenge of Greater Greece" examines the important period 1910-1920 of modern Greek history

  5. Ta Nea Review: "Metaxas Against Tsaldaris" (Ioannis V. Daskarolis)

    Those who stood against Venizelos

    Two new books that, although written in different styles and around different central themes, give a wide historical range to the study of the anti-Venizelist faction and its figures in Greece

  6. Ta Nea Review: "The Collaborators" (Menelaos Charalambidis)

    The second internal “Occupation” of the collaborators

    The historian who has led the way in bringing the liberation of Athens into the public sphere offers a "difficult" book on collaboration in the Attica region

  7. Ta Nea Review: "Turkey: A Past Against History" (Christine Philliou)

    “Identities in the Ottoman Empire are a complex process”

    The professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley talks to "Ta Nea" about her latest book, "Turkey: A Past Against History"

  8. Ta Nea Review: "Greece" (Dušan Spasojević)

    1821 through the eyes of a Serbian ambassador

    With his penetrating eye, Serbia's representative in our country comes to add a large piece to our own "ailing" Balkan identity, offering us a rare image

  9. Ta Nea Review: "Islamic Fascism" (Hamed Abdel-Samad)

    Criticism of Islam from within

    The striking similarities between modern Islamism and the fascism of the 20th century, as shaped by Hitler and Mussolini

  10. Ta Nea Review: "Educating Children in Post-Revolutionary Athens" (Mania Meziti)

    The education of women through the eyes of two Protestants

    The records of the Hills fill a large gap in the Protestant educational presence in Greece, and especially concerning the Hill School, a landmark of post-revolutionary Athens

  11. Ta Nea Review: "To Konstantinos G. Pitsakis. In Remembrance" (Collective work)

    In memory of Konstantinos Pitsakis

    The multifaceted personality of one of the leading professors of Legal History in Greece, through the eyes of his colleagues and scholarly companions

  12. Ta Nea Review: "The Macedonia of the Germans" (Konstantinos Papanikolaou)

    Macedonia through the eyes of the Germans

    A study revealing that interest in the ancient Greek world in 19th-century Prussia was linked to the later rise of German imperialism

  13. Ta Nea Review: "Makarios 1948-1959: Political Hegemony and the Evolution towards Authoritarianism" (Marios Thrasyvoulou)

    Constructing and deconstructing Makarios

    The "Bonapartist formation" of the ecclesiastical leader, who acquired a key political role, as told by the bold Cypriot historian

  14. Ta Nea Review: "Atomic Age" (Achilleas Chekimoglou)

    My own atomic energy…

    A journalistic investigation into Greece's unknown nuclear ambitions during the 20th century and the discovery of uranium in the country in the 1950s

  15. Ta Nea Review: "V13: Chronicle of a Trial" (Emmanuel Carrère)

    The writer as an eyewitness of History

    The talented representative of non-fiction records the trial of the surviving members of the Islamist terrorist group that carried out the murderous attacks at the Bataclan in 2015

  16. Ta Nea Review: "Giannis and Miltos Manakias. The Faces Behind the Lens" (Stavroula Mavrogeni)

    The regained time of the Manakias brothers

    The bilingual album of photographs from the early 20th century, from the Foundation of the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle and Modern History of Macedonia (IMMA) and the University of Macedonia Press

  17. Ta Nea Review: "So, About Modern Europe" (David Imhoof)

    “We study History seriously, but we don’t write seriously”

    The historian talks about the charm of narrative, the significance of the Enlightenment as against the Middle Ages in European history, and Thucydides, on the occasion of his book "So, About Modern Europe"

  18. Ta Nea Review: "New History of the French Revolution" (Annie Jourdan)

    The revolutionary phenomenon in France and Greece

    The new history of the French Revolution by the French historian Annie Jourdan and the collective volume of the Society for the Study of Modern Hellenism on the revolutionary phenomenon

  19. Ta Nea Review: "A Short History of the Greek Revolution" (Christos Loukos)

    The questions and transformations of 1821

    The mentalities and behaviours during 1821, the picture of a different world as opposed to the Church, and how the Revolution is realised and experienced according to region and social group

  20. Ta Nea Review: "The French Institute of Athens (1915-1961)" (Nikolas Manitakis)

    A “biography” of the French Institute

    Nikolas Manitakis's research on the institution that was inaugurated in Athens in 1915