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Greece - Biography of a Modern Nation (Paperback)
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Greece - Biography of a Modern Nation (Paperback)
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 AND THE RUNCIMAN
AWARD 2021 A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best history of
Greece around... Beautifully written and packed with insights about
the culture and the people. I will be dipping into this book for
the rest of my life' Victoria Hislop We think we know ancient
Greece, the civilisation that shares the same name and gave us just
about everything that defines 'western' culture today, in the arts,
sciences, social sciences and politics. Yet, as Greece has been
brought under repeated scrutiny during the financial crises that
have convulsed the country since 2010, worldwide coverage has
revealed just how poorly we grasp the modern nation. This book sets
out to understand the modern Greeks on their own terms. 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
themselves that is at once Greek and modern? This book reveals the
remarkable achievement, during the last 300 years, of building a
modern nation on, sometimes literally, the ruins of a vanished
civilisation. This is the story of the Greek nation-state but also,
and perhaps 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.
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