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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Ottoman Legacy | |
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| Greek identity and the role of the Orthodox Church | |
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| Administration and local society | |
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| The economic of the region | |
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| The Greek diaspora | |
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| The legacy - a summary | |
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| The Birth of the Modern Greek State | |
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| The pre-revolutionary context | |
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| The Greek War of Independence, 1821-1828 | |
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| The presidency of Ioannis Kapodistrias | |
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| Building the Modern State 1833-1897 | |
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| Regency and absolutism: the political settlement of liberated Greece | |
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| Rebuilding a broken land | |
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| Constitutional monarchy | |
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| The age of reform, 1864-1909 | |
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| Constructing the Modern Nation: irredentism, nationalism and identity in nineteenth-century Greece | |
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| The Megali Idea and the struggle for territorial expansion | |
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| The Cretan and Macedonian questions | |
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| Nationalism and identity | |
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| Greek Society in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries | |
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| Demographic change | |
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| The spiti: family and household structure | |
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| Farms and villages | |
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| Farming the land | |
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| The other Greeks: shepherds, sailors and artisans | |
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| The social world of men and women | |
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| Athens ascendant | |
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| Coming to America | |
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| From a Nation United to a Nation Divided | |
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| National malaise and Venizelos's rise to power | |
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| The First Golden Age of Venizelism | |
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| The Balkan wars | |
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| The national schism and the Great War | |
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| The Inter-war Period, 1919-1940: a time of turmoil | |
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| Peace and war | |
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| The Asia Minor catastrophe | |
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| The catastrophe compounded | |
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| The exchange of populations and its cost | |
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| Counting coups | |
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| Venizelos redux | |
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| The Metaxas dictatorship | |
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| The Terrible Decade: occupation and civil war 1940-1950 | |
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| The 'good' war | |
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| Occupation | |
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| Civil war | |
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| Reconstruction and Retribution 1950-1967 | |
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| Reconstruction | |
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| Political restoration | |
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| Economic recovery | |
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| Society in the 1950s and 1960s | |
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| NATO and Cyprus | |
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| The slide to chaos | |
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| Dictatorship, Democratic Restoration and the Era of PASOK: 1967-1989 | |
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| The junta | |
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| Karamanlis and the restoration of democracy | |
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| The rise and fall of Papandreou and PASOK | |
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| Greek society during the era of restoration and socialism | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Index | |