A history of modern Greece by one of the pre-eminent experts in the field.
Roderick Beaton is the Emeritus Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College London. He is a three-time winner of the Runciman Award, for his books George Seferis- Waiting for the Angel- A Biography, An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature, and Byron's War- Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution, which was also shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and in 2019 was made a Commander of the Order of Honour of the Hellenic Republic, in recognition of his 'distinguished contribution to the study of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature'.
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.
*The Week*
His new book - judicious, well-researched and commendably
up-to-date - deserves to be the standard general history of modern
Greece in English for years to come.
*Financial Times*
This book explores the history, not of a Greece of romantic or
philhellenic imagination, but the reality of the country as it has
become today. The empathy it evokes for the survival of modern
Greek statehood against a recurring pattern of often existential
crisis is all the more compelling, subtle and above all human in
its many-sidedness. Beaton's account instantly becomes the single
most outstanding treatment of its subject and shows us why - as
Lord Palmerston expressed it succinctly for his own times -
'Greece' is an emotional word that still matters to contemporary
society.
*Professor Robert Holland*
A wonderfully engaging narrative ... It is a superb achievement and
to be recommended to anyone with even the most rudimentary
interest
*Professor Kevin Featherstone*
A perceptive analysis of Greece's financial crisis, the embers of
which continue to threaten to derail the single currency project of
the EU
*Country Life*
Praise for Byron's War: Indispensable
*Literary Review*
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