<p>'Monumental . . . A wonderful book.' Peter Frankopan'Magisterial . . . remarkable.' Guardian'Erudite and highly readable . . . An authoritative guide to the countless ways in which Greek words and ideas have shaped the modern world.' Financial TimesThe Greeks is a story which takes us from the archaeological treasures of the Bronze Age Aegean and myths of gods and heroes, to the politics of the European Union today. It is a story of inventions, such as the alphabet, philosophy and science, but also of of cultures which merged and multiplied, and adapted to catastrophic change. It is the epic, revelatory history of the Greek-speaking people and their global impact told as never before.</p>

GREEKS

Roderick Beaton

Faber&Faber

Alexios I Komnenos (Belfast Byzantine texts and translations)

Barbara Hill

Mark Whittow

James Crow

Alan Harvey

Dion Smyth

Jonathan Shepard

Patricia Karlin-Hayter

Paul Magdalino

Ludwig Burgmann

Pamela Armstrong

James Howard-Johnston

Catia Galatariotou

Lyn Rodley

Belfast Byzantine Enterprises, School of Greek and Latin, The Queen's University of Belfast]

Ariadne's Children

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )

<p>It has been called the age of revolution. The white heat of it came in the decades either side of the year 1800. But it lasted a full century: from the American Declaration of Independence in 1776 to the great national unifications of Germany and Italy during the 1860s. Right in the middle of this long age of revolution and, as it turns out, the pivotal point within it, comes the Greek Revolution that broke out in the spring of 1821. Historians have been slow to recognise the key role of the Greek uprising in 1821, and the international recognition of Greece as a sovereign, independent state nine years later, in 1830, in this process that did so much to shape the geopolitics of the European continent, and indeed of much of the world. This little book sets out to explain what happened during these nine years to bring about such far-reaching (and surely unanticipated) consequences, and why the full significance of these events is only now coming to be appreciated, two hundred years later.</p>

The Greek Revolution of 1821 and its Global Significance

History

Ancient Civilizations

Aiora Press

Η Ελληνική Επανάσταση του 1821 και η παγκόσμια σημασία της / The Greek Revolution of 1821 and its Global Significance (Greek edition)

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