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This is a political biography of General Ioannis Metaxas, who assumed dictatorial power in Greece in 1936 and oversaw the resistance to the Italian invasion in World War II. It puts emphasis on the early career of Metaxas and his journey to state power from... [ More...]
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An interdisciplinary study exploring how Greek villagers understood and reacted to their landscapes.
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This is a lively collection of 10 short, annotated and illustrated biographies of aristocratic ladies of the final years of the Byzantine Empire. Some were ambitious mothers, others, unhappy wives, some were nuns or scholars, one became the wife of a... [ More...]
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This book provides a complete chronology of the Byzantine Empire to the fall of Constantinople on May 28, 1453. The events listed are mainly political and military with some cultural history. Each year occupies around one page of the text.
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In this book Dr. Harvey shows that if we broaden our comprehension of feudalism, the economic developments of the Byzantine empire and the medieval West were far more comparable than Byzantine historians have been prepared to admit. Previous interpretations... [ More...]
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Drawing on the latest research into ancient, medieval and modern history, this single-volume traces the history of Greek culture and societies from the Bronze Age to the Present. Written for the general reader and undergraduate student, it examines the... [ More...]
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"Few men there are who having once visited Greece do not contrive to visit it again. ... excepting Southern Italy, there is no country which can compare with Greece in beauty and interest to the intelligent traveller."J. P. Mahaffy was a Fellow of Trinity... [ More...]
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