Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation [Hardcover ed.] 022667374X, 9780226673745

We know ancient Greece, the civilization that shares the same name and gave us much that defines Western culture today.

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Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation [Hardcover ed.]
022667374X, 9780226673745

We know ancient Greece, the civilization that shares the same name and gave us much that defines Western culture today.

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1. East meets west? -- 2. A seed is sown -- 3. Born in blood -- 4. First steps -- 5. Ideals and sorrows of youth -- 6. M

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First published by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK, 2019.

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What makes a nation a nation? A Biography of the Indian Nation contextualises this question in a uniquely new paradigm b

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Against the backdrop of ever-increasing nationalist violence during the last decade of the twentieth century, this book

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The glorious, classical legacy of Greece is universally revered. But this legacy has come at a price. How will Greece ev

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Proselytes of a New Nation analyzes questions such as: Why did many Muslims convert to Greek Orthodoxy? What did convers

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Rugged, remote, riven by tribal rivalries and religious violence, Afghanistan seems to many a forsaken country frozen in

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The first major political biography of General Ioannis Metaxas, who assumed dictatorial power in Greece in 1936 and over

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