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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 | |