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After the War Was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation, and State in Greece, 1943-1960
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Description for After the War Was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation, and State in Greece, 1943-1960
Paperback. Extending historical approaches to Greece, this work contains essays that map a social history of Greece in the 1940s and 1950s, a period in which the country grappled - bloodily - with foreign occupation and intense civil conflict. It explores how war and civil war affected the family, the law, and the state. Editor(s): Mazower, Mark. Series: Princeton Modern Greek Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 table, 1 map, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
This volume makes available some of the most exciting research currently underway into Greek society after Liberation. Together, its essays map a new social history of Greece in the 1940s and 1950s, a period in which the country grappled--bloodily--with foreign occupation and intense civil conflict. Extending innovative historical approaches to Greece, the contributors explore how war and civil war affected the family, the law, and the state. They examine how people led their lives, as communities and individuals, at a time of political polarization in a country on the front line of the Cold War's division of Europe. And they ... Read more
This volume makes available some of the most exciting research currently underway into Greek society after Liberation. Together, its essays map a new social history of Greece in the 1940s and 1950s, a period in which the country grappled--bloodily--with foreign occupation and intense civil conflict. Extending innovative historical approaches to Greece, the contributors explore how war and civil war affected the family, the law, and the state. They examine how people led their lives, as communities and individuals, at a time of political polarization in a country on the front line of the Cold War's division of Europe. And they ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Series
Princeton Modern Greek Studies
Condition
New
Weight
544g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691058429
SKU
V9780691058429
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About Mazower
Mark Mazower is Professor of History at the University of London. He is the author of Inside Hitler's Greece, Greece and the Inter-War Economic Crisis, and Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century, as well as editor of The Policing of Politics in the Twentieth Century: Historical Perspectives.
Reviews for After the War Was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation, and State in Greece, 1943-1960
"This is one of the most contentious and incompletely studied periods in Greek history, and these essays throw light into places which were until recently obscured by political prejudice, some of them even assumed to lie outside the bounds of historiography."
Michael Llewellyn Smith, Times Literary Supplement "This excellent collection of first-rate case studies is not only a significant contribution to ... Read more
Michael Llewellyn Smith, Times Literary Supplement "This excellent collection of first-rate case studies is not only a significant contribution to ... Read more