This volume makes available some of the most exciting research
currently underway into Greek society after Liberation. Together, its
essays map a new social history of Greece in the 1940s and 1950s, a
period in which the country grappled--bloodily--with foreign
occupation and intense civil conflict. Extending innovative historical
approaches to Greece, the contributors explore how war and civil war
affected the family, the law, and the state. They examine how people
led their lives, as communities and individuals, at a time of
political polarization in a country on the front line of the Cold
War's division of Europe. And they advance the ongoing reassessment of
what happened in postwar Europe by including regional and village
histories and by examining long-running issues of nationalism and
ethnicity. Previously neglected subjects--from children and women in
the resistance and in prisons to the state use of pageantry--yield
fresh insights. By focusing on episodes such as the problems of Jewish
survivors in Salonika, memories of the Bulgarian occupation of
northern Greece, and the controversial arrest of a war criminal, these
scholars begin to answer persistent questions about war and its
repercussions. How do people respond to repression? How deep are
ethnic divisions? Which forms of power emerge under a weakened state?
When forced to choose, will parents sacrifice family or ideology? How
do ordinary people surmount wartime grievances to live together? In
addition to the editor, the contributors are Eleni Haidia, Procopis
Papastratis, Polymeris Voglis, Mando Dalianis, Tassoula Vervenioti,
Riki van Boeschoten, John Sakkas, Lee Sarafis, Stathis N. Kalyvas,
Anastasia Karakasidou, Bea Lefkowicz, Xanthippi Kotzageorgi-Zymari,
Tassos Hadjianastassiou, and Susanne-Sophia Spiliotis.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781400884438
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Princeton University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok