This book provides a concise, illustrated introduction to the history of modern Greece, with a new final chapter about Greek history and politics to the present

Modern Greece: A History since 1821 is a chronologicalaccount of the political, economic, social, and cultural history ofGreece, from the birth of the Greek sta

This authorative study covers the period from the eighth century BC, which witnessed the emergence of the Greek city-states, to the conquests of Alexander the G

It was the greatest empire ever, with an unconquerable army, larger-than-life rulers, impressive structures, richly developed art and philosophy, and a vast, ad