Greece and the New Balkans
Author: Van Coufoudakis
Publisher: New York : Pella Publishing Company
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 488
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Van Coufoudakis
Publisher: New York : Pella Publishing Company
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 488
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Shea
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2016-03-18
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 1476621764
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With the breakup of the former Yugoslavia and a pending NATO membership bid, an old conflict between Greece and Macedonia has taken on added significance for the international community. Greece has vehemently argued, particularly in the West, that the name Macedonia was in fact Greek and that its use by this new nation in the Balkans portended Macedonia's expansionist ambitions. The Macedonians bitterly disputed this, noting that Alexander the Great was a Macedonian, and adducing many other fascinating and rational arguments. Tensions were said to have been reduced by an interim agreement between the two countries, but the attempted assassination of Macedonian president Kiro Gligorov in October 1995 has again heightened hostility in the area. The genesis of the conflict is detailed here, as well as the modern day events that have led many observers to believe that the area is a flashpoint for a major war, greater than that in Bosnia.
Author: Othon Anastasakis
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2020-07-13
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1527556654
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume brings together young researchers in an interdisciplinary study of Greek interaction with other Balkan states over the past two hundred years. The thirteen chapters of the volume reflect the diversity of a long and complex relationship between Greece and its Balkan neighbours. They thus shed refreshing light on its persistent attributes of opportunity and risk, attraction and enmity, exchange and exclusion, through exploration of historical, anthropological, literary, political and economic perspectives.
Author: James Pettifer
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Published: 2022-02-24
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781838463014
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Dimitris Tziovas
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1351932187
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Greece and the Balkans explores the cultural relationships between Greece and other Balkan countries in the domains of language, literature, thought, translation, and music, and examines issues of identity and perception among the Balkan peoples themselves. The essays bring together scholars from across a range of disciplines: historians, anthropologists, linguists and musicologists with specialists on literature, translation, the history of ideas and religion. By raising issues of cultural hybridity, and nationalist or pre-nationalist interpretations of culture and history it lays claim to a place in the context of studies on nationalism and post-colonialism. Greece and the Balkans also contributes to a recognition of the Balkans as a site, like some postcolonial ones, where identities have become fused, orientalism and eurocentrism blurred and where religion and modernity clashed and co-existed. By approaching cultural encounters between Greece and the Balkans from a fresh and informed perspective, it makes a substantial contribution to the study of a rather neglected aspect in the history of a region which has suffered in the past from narrow-minded, nationalistic arguments.
Author: Δημήτρης Τζιόβας
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 306
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Greece and the Balkans explores the cultural relationships between Greece and other Balkan countries in the domains of language, literature, thought, translation, and music, and examines issues of identity and perception among the Balkan peoples themselves. The essays bring together scholars from across a range of disciplines: historians, anthropologists, linguists and musicologists with specialists on literature, translation, the history of ideas and religion. By raising issues of cultural hybridity, and nationalist or pre-nationalist interpretations of culture and history it lays claim to a place in the context of studies on nationalism and post-colonialism. Greece and the Balkans also contributes to a recognition of the Balkans as a site, like some postcolonial ones, where identities have become fused, orientalism and eurocentrism blurred and where religion and modernity clashed and co-existed. By approaching cultural encounters between Greece and the Balkans from a fresh and informed perspective, it makes a substantial contribution to the study of a rather neglected aspect in the history of a region which has suffered in the past from narrow-minded, nationalistic arguments.
Author: Dimitri Pentzopoulos
Publisher: Hurst & Company
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 310
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The defeat of the Greek armies in Asia Minor in August 1922, led directly to the flight of Greek refugees from Asia Minor, the compulsory exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey and the resettlement in Greece of 1.3 million displaced people. This text covers this impact.
Author: Oleg Polunin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780192819987
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Flowers of Greece and the Balkans is a unique field guide by one of the best-known botanists of our time. First published in 1987 and never surpassed, this volume names and describes nearly 3,000 species of flowering plants in the region. Many of the richest plant hunting areas in southeast Europe are described firsthand, and each description is accompanied by several line drawings. The book's most outstanding feature is 80 pages of color plates containing almost 500 photographs of flowers in their natural settings. The only comprehensive field guide for the region, this reissued version will delight all botanists, gardeners, conservationists, and naturalists interested in the flora of southeastern Europe.
Author: Thanos Veremis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-02-28
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1786731053
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The history of the Balkans has been a distillation of the great and terrible themes of 20th century history-the rise of nationalism, communism, fascism, genocide, identity and war. Written by one of the leading historians of the region, this is a new interpretation of that history, focusing on the uses and legacies of nationalism in the Balkan region. In particular, Professor Veremis analyses the influence of the West-from the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the rise and collapse of Yugoslavia. Throughout the state-building process of Greece, Serbia, Rumania, Bulgaria and later, Albania, the West provided legal, administrative and political prototypes to areas bedevilled by competing irredentist claims. At a time when Slovenia, Rumania, Bulgaria and Croatia have become full members of the EU, yet some orphans of the Communist past are facing domestic difficulties, A Modern History of the Balkans seeks to provide an important historical context to the current problems of nationalism and identity in the Balkans.