Modern Greece

With an authoritative and highly readable prose that testifies to Gallant’s long-established mastery of his field, the newly expanded edition of Modern Greece presents an extremely timely and balanced account of social and political history in the country from the 19th century to the present day. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand Greece and its people. * Sappho Xenakis, Birkbeck, University of London, UK * Hands down, the most lucid, comprehensive, and readable history we have of Modern Greece. This completely new edition -- with a new framing, new material on Greece's past breathless decade, and new conclusions -- shows Gallant's great versatility as a truly contemporary historian. The book also provides something few modern Greek histories do: a critical awareness of broader contexts. The Ottoman Empire, Europe, the forces of Globalization -- Gallant presents Greece both on its own terms and within the multiple frames that have shaped and continue to shape it. Highly recommended for the expert and newcomer alike. * Katherine Fleming, New York University, USA * Thomas Gallant’s Modern Greece is by far the best concise history of Modern Greece. The recent updated edition is in fact an almost completely new book, not only covering the more recent events in Greek history but also providing much needed background from the Ottoman period. The book has been further enhanced with new maps, images, and text boxes, providing the reader with a taste of the primary materials historians use. This book will be an invaluable source to students of Modern Greek history. It is approachable, insightful, well-designed, enjoyable, and yet academically thorough at the same time. * Exdoxios Doxiadis, Simon Fraser University, Canada * Modern Greece by Tom Gallant is a successful example of how to compose a national history without writing a national biography. The great upheavals in historiography during the last few decades have challenged how we write national histories. In this book, Gallant adopts the perspectives and the methods of transnational, social and cultural history to explicate how a distinctive society in the Eastern Mediterranean and Southern Europe responded to the challenges of the making of the modern world over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. * Antonis Liakos, University of Athens, Greece * A skilful narrative of the history of Greece from the insurrection against the Ottoman Empire in 1821 to the rise of SYRIZA. * European Review of History *