Articles & Commentary
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A foundational moment of the Modern Greek Enlightenment
The new Amolgos edition of the "Memoir on the Present State of Civilization in Greece", with explanatory texts by the university professors Nikos Kokkomelis, Giannis Papatheodorou and Alexandros Katsigiannis
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The “margin” in History
Two new publications, one on the brothel of Vourla in Drapetsona through written sources and the other on the history of drug addiction in Greece, bring the "invisible" of society back into historiography
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1922 without embellishments and “camps”
The historian's new expanded edition on the end of the Great Idea, Eleftherios Venizelos and anti-Venizelism
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The institution that would impose order in an age of confusion
Research and narrative on the creation of the City Police during the interwar period
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New historians on the old trauma
The collective volume "And the East, a fountain of blood", published by Govostis, on the causes and consequences of the Asia Minor Catastrophe
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Portrait of a Greek communist at a young age
The "Memories" of the interwar Left intellectual add a link to the narrative of the struggle of ideas
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A history of early nationalism
The transition from the "pre-national" to the national phase of Mediterranean history in Konstantina Zanou's "Stammering the Nation"
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The Empire of Cotton
The social and political evolution of industrial capitalism in an award-winning book that is now also available in Greek from Crete University Press.
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Kundera’s battle for Europe
The European Civil War over supremacy in Eastern Europe regained interest, with tragic dimensions, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but it also brought to the fore an issue that was never closed: the battle for the heart of Central and Eastern Europe.
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New pieces in the research on 1821
Original research on archival material relating to 1821 by young researchers of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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War at the centre of History
The new book by the Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan, "War: How Conflict Shaped Us"
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Britain – Russia: an odd couple
The relations between the two states, starting from the Battle of Navarino, by the experienced former British minister
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Ziller and his era
The life and work of one of the architects who shaped the image of modern Athens, through the volume "Memoirs of Ernst Ziller"
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The nationalism of Barrès, Dragoumis and Greece
For those of us who work on the Greek 19th century, Paraskevas Matalas's book "Nation and Orthodoxy: The Adventures of a Relationship" is a landmark work for the period, as it studies in minute detail the penetration of nationalisms into the Balkan region as we understand them today.
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The ever-relevant Henry Kissinger
The "combative" book by the British diplomat and specialist in the history of Cyprus on the role of the leading American politician
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When the Second World War becomes literature
The treatment of historical events in "The Splendid and the Vile" and "The Flight Portfolio" by Erik Larson and Julie Orringer respectively
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Metamorphoses, conversions, transitions, transformations
The course of people towards 1821 and their transformation into political subjects after it, through four books
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The dictionary of the protagonists of 1821
The narration of the first three phases of the modern Greek state through thematic entries and the author's reflective, popularising writing in the "Primer of Modern Greek History"
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“Say Nothing”: A hard-hitting book about the other “Bloody” Sunday
The award-winning book by Patrick Radden Keefe, which became a mini-series on Disney+, besides the shocking story of Jean McConville, who was abducted and murdered by the IRA, offers an example of intensity of writing and research that we do not often come across.