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The 2nd edition of Nicholas Doumanis's A History of Greece provides a masterful exploration of Greek history from early antiquity to the present. Doumanis surveys the ancient, medieval and modern periods to convincingly make the case for Greek culture's robustness having stemmed from its willing and repeated engagement with other cultures throughout history. Drawing on a wealth of sources, the book offers a comprehensive examination of the development and transformations of Greek politics, culture and society from the earliest times to the Greece of today.
This edition includes, for the first time:
· A new introduction which details the complex relationship between Greeks today and the Greeks of antiquity, and the reasons why historical controversies can and have spilled over into mass protests in the region
· New sections and added material on social change and the environment, women, minorities, religion, Cyprus and the wider Greek world/diaspora
· A brand new chapter - Modernity, the Liberation of Cyprus and Times of Crisis (1974-present) – which examines how Greece found political stability in the aftermath of the tumultuous crisis decade of the 2010s, while the Republic of Cyprus was liberated, invaded and divided
· An enhanced visual component with over four times as many images and ten maps
· Historiographical updates throughout
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Prehistory to 500: Beginnings
2. Classical Greece (500-359 BC): The Golden Age of the Polis
3. The Hellenistic Era (359-327 BC): From Philip II to Augustus
4. The Greek Roman Empire I (27 BC-AD 527): From the Pax Romana to Late Antiquity
5. The Greek Roman Empire II (c.500-1200): The Triumph of Orthodoxy
6. The Greek Oikoumene (1200-1700): Living under Frankish and Ottoman Rule
7. The Making of Modern Hellas (c.1700-1911): Ethnicity and State Building
8. Searching for Stability (1900-1974)
9. Modernity, the Liberation of Cyprus and Times of Crisis (1974-present)
Notes
Chronology
Glossary
Timeline
Selected Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | Apr 16 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 2nd |
| Pages | 312 |
| ISBN | 9781350457683 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 40 bw illus |
| Series | Bloomsbury Essential Histories |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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