The Greeks and the British in the Levant, 1800-1960s : between empires and nations /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Γιάγκου, Αναστασία (επιμελήτρια), Καζαμίας, Γεώργιος Α. (επιμελητής), Ηolland, R. F. (Robert F.) (επιμελητής)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London & New York : Routledge, 2016.
• Σειρά: British School at Athens. v. 2
• Θέματα: Ιμπεριαλισμός > Ιστορία; Κοινωνική αλλαγή > Πολιτικές απόψεις > Ιστορία; Εθνικισμός > Ιστορία; Ελλάδα > Σχέσεις > Μέση Ανατολή; Μεγάλη Βρετανία > Σχέσεις > Ελλάδα; Ελλάδα > Σχέσεις > Μεγάλη Βρετανία

"This book explores the concept of 'the Levant' as a component of the regional and international system during the age of imperialism. At its heart is a focus on the experience of Greek-speaking societies and, above all, the independent state of Greece that came into existence in 1830...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I. The Levant : dilemmas of modernity
• The Levant as a middle ground / John Darwin
• Why the Levant? / Robert Holland
• The claim to enter modernity : the Greek national programme in perspective / Evanthis Hatzivassiliou
• Greece's Westernizers : K. Tsatsos, P. Kanellopoulos and G. Theotokas on Greece's cultural and political orientation / Lykourgos Kourkouvelas
• Maidens and matrons, ladies and labourers : tradition and innovation in Greek women's lives in the Longue Durée / Helen Angelomatis-Tsougarakis
• Part II. The Anglo-Hellenic connection
• Bailed in : strategy, finance and the acquisition of Cyprus, 1878 / Diana Markides
• Disraeli, "the Key of Western Asia" and the echoes of history in the Levant / Klearchos A. Kyriakides
• Cyprus' trade with the Levant, 1881-1946/7 / George Kazamias & Maria Panayiotou
• "The smell of Smyrna...is neither a Greek nor a Moslem smell" : Toynbee, Greece and the Levant / Richard Clogg
• The British in the Levant during the 1940s : the experience of Cyprus and the Dodecanese / Anastasia Yiangou
• "Don't let us spoil the ship for a ha'p'oth of heretics" : identity issues in the British colony of Cyprus : the final settlement / Anastasia Hamatsou
• Merchants, consuls and intermediary service in the nineteenth century eastern Mediterranean / Maria Christina Chatziioannou
• Part III. Ambiguous relationships in the Greek Levant
• The Levant as a vanishing mirage : a tale of three cities / George Th. Mavrogordatos
• Greater Greece in the early twentieth century : Crete, Cyprus, Constantinople / Michael Llewellyn-Smith
• Greek policy in the Levant and the "Greek" community of Alexandria, 1947-1961 / Manolis Koumas.