Roderick Beaton - Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation
Here you can read online Roderick Beaton - Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 2019, publisher: University of Chicago Press, genre: Religion. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:
Romance novel
Science fiction
Adventure
Detective
Science
History
Home and family
Prose
Art
Politics
Computer
Non-fiction
Religion
Business
Children
Humor
Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.
- Book:Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation
- Author:
- Publisher:University of Chicago Press
- Genre:
- Year:2019
- Rating:3 / 5
- Favourites:Add to favourites
- Your mark:
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation: summary, description and annotation
We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.
How did Greece come to be so powerfully attached to the legacy of the ancients in the first place and then define an identity for itself that is at once Greek and modern? This book reveals the remarkable achievement, during the last three hundred years, of building a modern nation on the ruins of a vanished civilizationsometimes literally so. This is the story of the Greek nation-state but also, and more fundamentally, of the collective identity that goes with it. It is not only a history of events and high politics; it is also a history of culture, of the arts, of people, and of ideas.
Opening with the birth of the Greek nation-state, which emerged from encounters between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire, Roderick Beaton carries his story into the present moment and Greeces contentious post-recession relationship with the rest of the European Union. Through close examination of how Greeks have understood their shared identity, Beaton reveals a centuries-old tension over the Greek sense of self. How does Greece illuminate the difference between a geographically bounded state and the shared history and culture that make up a nation?
A magisterial look at the development of a national identity through history,Greece: Biography of a Modern Nationis singular in its approach. By treating modern Greece as a biographical subject, a living entity in its own right, Beaton encourages us to take a fresh look at a people and culture long celebrated for their past, even as they strive to build a future as part of the modern West.
Roderick Beaton: author's other books
Who wrote Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work
Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.
Font size:
Interval:
Bookmark:
ALLEN LANE
UK | USA | Canada | Ireland | Australia
India | New Zealand | South Africa
Allen Lane is part of the Penguin Random House group of companies whose addresses can be found at global.penguinrandomhouse.com
First published 2019
Copyright Roderick Beaton, 2019
The moral right of the author has been asserted
Photograph of Athens by Frederic Boissonnas, c. 1910
Print from an original glass plate
Photographic Archive of the National Historical Museum in Athens
Cover design: Richard Green
ISBN: 978-0-241-31285-8
In loving memory of my parents, who first introduced me to Greece, and supported me as I went on to discover more and more wonders of the Greek world
Janet Mary Beaton
24 July 192215 April 2018
Duncan MacGillivray Beaton
13 September 19227 April 2018
.
My eyes have seen no land more glorious than this small threshing-floor.
Dionysios Solomos, The Free Besieged (18269)
Those principles which are now in action in Greece will gradually produce their effect, both here and in other countries I cannot calculate to what a height Greece may rise. Hitherto it has been a subject for the hymns and elegies of fanatics and enthusiasts; but now it will draw the attention of the politician.
Lord Byron, speaking at Missolonghi, Greece (1824)
A nation? says Bloom. A nation is the same people living in the same place Or also living in different places.
James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)
A people that has within it a spirit, when it reaches the final depth of despair, finds the strength to react against itself. It reacts suddenly without any warning and without at all preparing the ground The time is ripe for bold pioneers.
Giorgos Theotokas, Free Spirit (1929)
Every effort has been made to contact all copyright holders. The publishers will be happy to correct any errors or omissions brought to their attention in future editions of this book.
. Ali Tepedelenli, Pasha of Yanya [Ioannina], known as Ali Pasha. Illustration from Thomas Smart Hughes, Travels in Sicily, Greece & Albania (London, 1820). (Getty Research Institute)
. Rigas Velestinlis, also called Pheraios. (National Historical Museum, Athens)
. The tricolour banner of Rigass Hellenic Republic, 1807. (Library of the Romanian Academy of Sciences (Ms. Gr. 928, f.275v))
. Adamantios Korais (Coray). (National Historical Museum, Athens)
. Karaiskakis trophy from Arachova. Watercolour by Athanasios Iatridis, 1827. Benaki Museum, Athens. (Bridgeman Images)
. Theodoros Kolokotronis. Pencil sketch by Karl Krazeisen, 14 May 1827. (National Gallery-Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, Athens)
. Count Ioannis Kapodistrias. Oil painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 181819. Royal Collection Trust. (CopyrightHer Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2018/Bridgeman Images)
. Entry of King Otto of Greece into Nauplia on 6 February 1833 (detail). Oil painting by Peter von Hess, 1835. Neue Pinakothek, Munich. (CopyrightBlauel Gnamm/Artothek)
. King Otto of Greece as a young man. Benaki Museum, Athens. (De Agostini/Getty Images)
. King Otto of Greece. Daguerrotype, c. 1848. (National Historical Museum, Athens)
. Alexandros Mavrokordatos. (National Historical Museum, Athens)
. Ioannis Kolettis. Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece (Gift of Aspasia Botasi and Dora Lauder). (Bridgeman Images)
. Ideal View of Athens with the Acropolis and the Areios Pagos. Oil painting by Leo von Klenze, 1846. Neue Pinakothek, Munich. (Copyright Blauel Gnamm/Artothek)
. Panorama of Athens. Lithograph by August Ferdinand Stademann, 1841. Private collection. (Christies/Bridgeman Images)
. King George I of the Hellenes. (The Print Collector/Getty Images)
. The Opening of the Corinth Canal. Oil painting by Konstantinos Volanakis, 1893. (Collection of Alpha Bank, Athens)
. Theodoros Diligiannis. Illustration from The Graphic, 29 May 1886. (Look & Learn/Bridgeman Images)
. Charilaos Trikoupis. Illustration from The Graphic, 29 May 1886. (Look & Learn/Bridgeman Images)
. Panepistimiou Street. Painting by Paul Mathiopoulos, 1900 1910. (National Gallery-Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, Athens)
. Pavlos Melas. Painting by Georgios Jakobides (Iakovidis), 1904. (National Historical Museum, Athens)
. Pericles Giannopoulos, charcoal drawing by Sophia Laskaridou, 1897. (Municipal Art Gallery, Kallithea)
. Eleftherios Venizelos and King Constantine I of the Hellenes, pictured at the time of the Balkan Wars. (De Agostini/Getty Images)
. Serres. Photograph taken during the Balkan Wars. (Kings College London Archives. Reproduced with permission of the Anglo-Hellenic League, Katie Lentakis Collection [AHL Acc3619])
. The village of Doxato, near Drama, 1913. (Kings College London Archives. Reproduced with permission of the Anglo-Hellenic League, Katie Lentakis Collection [AHL Acc3619])
. Postcard showing the territory of Great Greece, according to the terms of the Treaty of Svres, 1920. (National Historical Museum, Athens)
. Greek prisoners of war, 1923. (Kings College London Archives. Reproduced with permission of the Anglo-Hellenic League, Katie Lentakis Collection [AHL Acc3619])
. Greek prisoners of war, 1923. (Kings College London Archives. Reproduced with permission of the Anglo-Hellenic League, Katie Lentakis Collection [AHL Acc3619])
. Eleftherios Venizelos. Oil painting by F. Papoulas, 1928. (Municipal Gallery of Athens Collections/Eleftherios Venizelos Museum)
. Ioannis Metaxas. Propaganda photograph, 1939. (Collection of Marina Petrakis)
. Rebetika: a bouzouki band in the 1930s. From Ilias Petropoulos, [Rebetika Songs] (Athens, 1968), plate 41.
. German troops raising the swastika over the Acropolis, 1941. (World History Archive/Alamy)
. Peoples Rule in Free Greece. (Kings College London Archives. League for Democracy in Greece collection [MGA/PH2])
. A burnt mountain village. (Kings College London Archives. League for Democracy in Greece collection [MGA/PH1])
. Men being rounded up in an Athens blocco during the Occupation. (Kings College London Archives. League for Democracy in Greece collection [MGA/PH1])
. Young soldiers of the Democratic Army. (Kings College London Archives. League for Democracy in Greece collection [MGA/PH5])
. Melina Mercouri in Never on a Sunday, 1960. (United Archives/Alamy)
. A tank prepares to crush the gate of the Athens Polytechnic in the early hours of 17 November 1973. Photograph by Aristotelis Sarrikostas. (AP/Rex/Shutterstock)
. Propaganda poster for the regime of the Colonels. (Private collection)
. Konstantinos Karamanlis, 1975. (
Font size:
Interval:
Bookmark:
Similar books «Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation»
Look at similar books to Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.
Discussion, reviews of the book Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.