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Greece - Biography of a Modern Nation (Hardcover)
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Greece - Biography of a Modern Nation (Hardcover)
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 AND THE RUNCIMAN
AWARD 2021 A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 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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