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Eleftherios Venizelos - The Trials of Statesmanship (Hardcover, New)
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Eleftherios Venizelos - The Trials of Statesmanship (Hardcover, New)
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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 the last
quarter century, but does not confine the treatment of the subject
in a purely Greek or even Balkan context. The entire project is
oriented toward placing the study of Venizelos' leadership in the
broad setting of twentieth-century politics and diplomacy. The
complex and often dramatic trajectory of Venizelos' career from
Cretan rebel to an admired European statesman is chartered out in a
sequence of chapters that survey his meteoric rise and great
achievements in Greek and European politics in the early decades of
the twentieth century, amidst violent passions and tragic
conflicts. Five further essays appraise in depth some critical
aspects of his policies, while a final chapter offers some glimpses
into a great statesman's personal and intellectual world. The book
is based on extensive scholarship but it is eminently readable and
it should appeal to all those interested in twentieth-century
history, politics and biography, offering a vivid sense of the
hopes and tragedies of Greek and European history in the age of the
Great War and of the interwar crisis.
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