Modern Greek Studies
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How is the Empire? A Study.
Doros Alastos, penname of Evdoros Joannides (1910-1978), was an important and prolific Cypriot author and progressive political activist in Great Britain, where he lived in self-exile from Cyprus from the 1930s to his death in 1978. Alastos was primarily known... € 20,00 -
Hermoupolis of Syros, 1823-1940. Volume I: An early industrial city in the Aegean Sea, Volume II: Industries and industrialists.
How did Greece’s first, and internationally oriented, commercial and maritime center transform into a small industrial city? Relying on extensive archival research and other contemporary sources, as well as on-site tangible traces of Hermoupolis’ industrial past, this study seeks to... € 55,00 -
Το Φυσικομαθηματικό Τμήμα του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών (1837-1904).
The subject of this book is the Physics and Mathematics Sections of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Athens from the foundation of the latter (1837) until the establishment of an independent Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (1904).... Original price was: € 30,00.€ 27,00Current price is: € 27,00. -
Οι Έλληνες της Αζοφικής 18ος – αρχές 20ού αιώνα. Νέες προσεγγίσεις στην ιστορία των Ελλήνων της νότιας Ρωσίας.
This pioneering collective work draws on hitherto neglected Russian and Ukrainian archives in order to shed light on the presence of Greek populations in significant port cities of the Azofic Sea. It focuses on a “chain of cities” including Taganrog,... € 22,00 -
Μακεδονικά Αποσημειώματα. Βυζαντινά-Μεταβυζαντινά.
What can we learn from Demetrios Chomatenos about the society of Veroia in the early 13th century? How did two Palaiologan icons from Veroia end up in private collections outside Greece, and how did it come about that one of... € 18,00 -
Studies on the Collection of Cypriot Renaissance Poetry.
The volume Studies on the Collection of Cypriot Renaissance Poetry, edited by Marina Rodosthenous-Balafa, has been published by the National Hellenic Research Foundation. This volume is part of the series “Sources of Cypriot Learning and History” under the editorship of... € 20,00 -
«From Rostov to Mytilene, 1919». The journal of an escape.
This is the first edition of the handwritten travel journal of Theologos Panagiotidis, a Greek from Trebizond who was a refugee in Russia, when he left Rostov to reach free Mytilene out of fear for the revolutionaries. The diary entries... Original price was: € 12,00.€ 10,80Current price is: € 10,80. -
Philological studies and Classical Philology in 19th-century Greece. A National Discipline
The object of the present study consists in the substance and role of classical philology in 19th-century Greece. There is a particularly close connection between the study of classical antiquity and Greece during that period since the ancient Greek past... € 18,00 -
Έλληνες έμποροι στην Αζοφική. Η δύναμη και τα όρια της οικογενειακής επιχείρησης.
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Eπίσημα κείμενα του Πατριαρχείου Kωνσταντινουπόλεως. II. Tα σωζόμενα από την περίοδο 1498-1565.
The re-establishment of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in 1454 provided the Orthodox Christians within the Ottoman Empire once more with a supreme ecclesiastical authority and, at the same time, an institutional organization of their social group. The study of this... € 40,00 -
Changing the map. The case of geographical name changes in the Meditteranean, 19th-20th century.
On May 9, 1822, just fourteen months after the start of the Revolution and a few days after the conclusion of the first National Assembly, the first decree stipulating the renaming of a settlement becomes the fifteenth law to be... € 20,00 -
Three provincial governors of Andros, members of Filiki Eteria. From revolutionary plans to state administration (1822-1825).
This book is devoted to the first three provincial governors of Andros, Georgios Kliris, Konstantinos Rados and Ivos Rigas. These three young men were committed to the nation’s liberation and independence, they adhered to the Greek Revolution’s ideals, they served... € 16,00 -
Awaiting the End of the World in the 17th Century. The Jewish Messiah and the Great Interpreter.
The 17th century is considered by many historians a period of general crisis for the Eurasian region. The conviction that humankind was living its final moments before doom was shared by many who anticipated the end of the world. The... Out of stock -
“Expatriated” Greek Antiquities: Departures and trajectories.
Ever since Greek independence, the expatriation of archaeological artifacts through illicit trade and the demands for their return are hotly debated issues in Greece and abroad. Antiquities are perceived by Greeks as integral to their collective identity, and thus as... € 15,00 -
Foreign authors translated into Greek 1700-1832. A historical approach to the Greek translation phenomenon.
Since the mid-20th century there has been a growing interest in the history of translations in Europe and worldwide, and since the 1990’s the theory of cultural transfer has largely focused on translations as means for intercultural relations. Modern translation... Out of stock -
The Cypriot collection of Petrarchan and other Renaissance poetry.
The book, number five in the collection “Sources of Cypriot Learning and History”, presents in a new edition the anthology of Renaissance lyric poetry in Cypriot Greek, which is transmitted by a unique manuscript witness, codex Marc. gr. IX, 32... € 25,00 -
14-18, Mesogheion Avenue. The Athens Security Police Headquarters during the Dictatorship (1971-1974).
This book deals with the activities of the “Asphalia”, the Athens Security Police, in the field of political persecution, during the later years of the military dictatorship (1971-1974). Based on a multitude of unknown or neglected data, the author dissects... Original price was: € 18,00.€ 14,40Current price is: € 14,40. -
La période italienne de Marco Renieri et ses premières années en Grèce.
Marco Renieri, jurist, philosopher, and historian, and later governor of the National Bank of Greece born in Trieste in 1815 into a wealthy family of the Greek diaspora, was raised in Venice. He went to the famous Liceo Santa Caterina... € 10,00 -
Drapetsona 1922-1967. At the Edge of the World.
At the end of 1922, thousands of refugees settled in rudimentary shelters on the – until then- uninhabited western coast of the port of Piraeus. Beyond the limits of the then inhabited space, a new settlement emerged: Drapetsona. This book... € 18,00 -
Histories of retail trade, 19th-21st century.
This book explores aspects of retail trade in contemporary Greece. It offers a study of retail trade from the point of view of consumption as an analytic and interpretative category, using the relevant sources of social and economic history. The... € 15,00 -
Αρχείο Αλή Πασά Συλλογής Ι. Χώτζη, Γενικών Αρχείων του Κράτους και Μουσείου Μπενάκη, Τόμος Ε΄ (1792-1820), Έκδοση-Σχολιασμός-Ευρετήρια
The release of the 5th volume of the Ali Pasha Archive completes the publication of a part of the Ottoman vizier’s archive, known as “John Chotzis Collection”. The volume includes 224 documents, dated from 1792 to 1820 and kept at... € 30,00 -
George Kastriota Skanderbeg. An unknown biography in Greek.
Although several biographies have been written on George Kastriot, known as Skanderbeg, his first biography in Greek appeared late, despite the fact that the beliefs concerning his Greek origin and his feats against the Ottoman army naturally appealed to Greek-speaking... € 25,00 -
Όψεις της ιστορίας της Μυκόνου στα νεότερα χρόνια.
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Philhellénisme. Ouvrages inspirés par la Guerre de l’Indépendance grecque 1821-1833. Répertoire Bibliographique. Seconde édition revue et augmentée.
Philhellenism, a recognized international liberal and radical ideological-political movement, a literary and art movement, nurtured in the climate of classicism and romanticism, as it has been characterized, which manifested itself in the eruption of the Greek War of Independence, did... € 18,00