Table of Contents

Politics: a regime to suit the nation; government and people. Institutions: the church; the military; the economy. Education: the mighty Greek school. Society: peasants; the middle class; migrants and refugees; heroes and heroic deeds; crime and impunity. Ideology: fashioning the new nation; demarcating the past; the return of hellenes; Greeks and others. Europe in Greek foreign policy: national geography a northern boundary; the frontier beyond; war for land.

About the Author

John S. Koliopoulos is Professor of ModernGreek History at theUniversity ofThessaloniki; ThanosVermis is Professorof Political History atAthens University.

Reviews

'A compelling analysis of the complexities ofthe struggle for independence in the 1820sand of the impassioned debates as to the formof government appropriate to a regeneratedGreece. ... Particular strengths of the book arethe discussion of the symbiotic relationshipbetween banditry, irredentism and politics inthe nineteenth century and the insight offeredinto the afterlife of the Macedonian struggle innorthern Greece in the 1940s.' -Richard Clogg,Times Literary Supplement'An original reflection on the history of modernGreece ... The authors dispose of pious fallacieswithout constructing new ones; they raisequestions rather than provide answers-suresigns of the historian's critical mind at work.'-Stevan Pavlowitch, Journal of South EastEuropean and Black Sea Studies'Meticulously researched ... thoroughlydocumented A... recommended.' -Library Journal