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Eleftherios Venizelos: The Trials of Statesmanship
Paschalis M. Kitromilides
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Description for Eleftherios Venizelos: The Trials of Statesmanship
Hardback. This study of Eleftherios Venizelos, a towering figure in European diplomacy and Greece's greatest statesman in the twentieth century, brings together a narrative of the drama of high politics with critical political analysis and judgement. Num Pages: 384 pages, 24 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 810.
Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece, 1910-1920 and 1928-1932, could be considered from many points of view the creator of contemporary Greece and one of the main actors in European diplomacy in the period 1910-1935. Yet the last book-length study discussing the man, his politics and his broader role in twentieth-century history has appeared in English more than fifty years ago. The aspiration of the present book is to fill this lacuna by bringing together the concerted research effort of twelve experts on Greek history and politics. The book draws on considerable new research that has appeared in Greek in ... Read more
Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece, 1910-1920 and 1928-1932, could be considered from many points of view the creator of contemporary Greece and one of the main actors in European diplomacy in the period 1910-1935. Yet the last book-length study discussing the man, his politics and his broader role in twentieth-century history has appeared in English more than fifty years ago. The aspiration of the present book is to fill this lacuna by bringing together the concerted research effort of twelve experts on Greek history and politics. The book draws on considerable new research that has appeared in Greek in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748624782
SKU
V9780748624782
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About Paschalis M. Kitromilides
Paschalis Kitromilides is Professor of Political Science at the University of Athens and Director, Institute for Neohellenic Research at Greece's National Research Foundation. An authority on the history of political thought and on Modern Greek history and politics, he is the author or editor of over twenty five books and of many scholarly articles in several languages.
Reviews for Eleftherios Venizelos: The Trials of Statesmanship
Paschalis Kitromilides' edited volume is ! extremely timely in making the most recent scholarship on Venizelos widely available. It is all the more welcome because the portrait provided is rounded and mature ! Venizelos was always driven relentlessly by "the intense politicization of life", and it is the politics which comes alive in this indispensable book. This book makes a ... Read more