JOHN S. KOLIOPOULOS is Professor of Modern Greek History at the University of Thessaloniki. He has written widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greece, including Brigands with a Cause: Brigandage and Irredentism in Modern Greece, 1881–1912 (1987) and Plundered Loyalties (1999). THANOS M. VEREMIS is Professor of Political History at the University of Athens, and is President of the Greek National Council for Education. His previous publications include Greece’s Balkan Entanglement (1994), The Military in Greek Politics (1997), and Action without Foresight: Western Intervention in Yugoslavia (2002). The authors have collaborated on Greece: A Modern Sequel (2002), a thematic overview of scholarly debates concerning the history of modern Greece.

• List of Figures and Map viiiAcknowledgments xIntroduction 11 The Greek War of Independence (1821–30) 152 Statecraft and Irredentism (1831–62) 283 A New Dynasty and Lingering Problems (1862–97) 444 Distribution of Land and the Consolidationof the Segmentary Society 575 The Twentieth Century: An Overture 646 The Venizelist Decade (1910–20) 687 The Asia Minor Debacle (1922–3) 898 The Turbulent Interwar Period (1923–41) 1019 Occupation and Conflict (1941–9) 11110 The Post-Civil-War Period (1949–67) 12711 Return to Democracy (1974–2009) 15312 Opposite Poles in Politics. Karamanlis vs. Papandreou 18413 Southern and Southeastern Europe: The Greek View 202Notes 216Selected Bibliography 235Index 249

JOHN S. KOLIOPOULOS is Professor of Modern Greek History at the University of Thessaloniki. He has written widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greece, including Brigands with a Cause: Brigandage and Irredentism in Modern Greece, 1881–1912 (1987) and Plundered Loyalties (1999). THANOS M. VEREMIS is Professor of Political History at the University of Athens, and is President of the Greek National Council for Education. His previous publications include Greece’s Balkan Entanglement (1994), The Military in Greek Politics (1997), and Action without Foresight: Western Intervention in Yugoslavia (2002). The authors have collaborated on Greece: A Modern Sequel (2002), a thematic overview of scholarly debates concerning the history of modern Greece.

• List of Figures and Map viiiAcknowledgments xIntroduction 11 The Greek War of Independence (1821–30) 152 Statecraft and Irredentism (1831–62) 283 A New Dynasty and Lingering Problems (1862–97) 444 Distribution of Land and the Consolidationof the Segmentary Society 575 The Twentieth Century: An Overture 646 The Venizelist Decade (1910–20) 687 The Asia Minor Debacle (1922–3) 898 The Turbulent Interwar Period (1923–41) 1019 Occupation and Conflict (1941–9) 11110 The Post-Civil-War Period (1949–67) 12711 Return to Democracy (1974–2009) 15312 Opposite Poles in Politics. Karamanlis vs. Papandreou 18413 Southern and Southeastern Europe: The Greek View 202Notes 216Selected Bibliography 235Index 249

JOHN S. KOLIOPOULOS is Professor of Modern Greek History at the University of Thessaloniki. He has written widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greece, including Brigands with a Cause: Brigandage and Irredentism in Modern Greece, 1881–1912 (1987) and Plundered Loyalties (1999). THANOS M. VEREMIS is Professor of Political History at the University of Athens, and is President of the Greek National Council for Education. His previous publications include Greece’s Balkan Entanglement (1994), The Military in Greek Politics (1997), and Action without Foresight: Western Intervention in Yugoslavia (2002). The authors have collaborated on Greece: A Modern Sequel (2002), a thematic overview of scholarly debates concerning the history of modern Greece.

• List of Figures and Map viiiAcknowledgments xIntroduction 11 The Greek War of Independence (1821–30) 152 Statecraft and Irredentism (1831–62) 283 A New Dynasty and Lingering Problems (1862–97) 444 Distribution of Land and the Consolidationof the Segmentary Society 575 The Twentieth Century: An Overture 646 The Venizelist Decade (1910–20) 687 The Asia Minor Debacle (1922–3) 898 The Turbulent Interwar Period (1923–41) 1019 Occupation and Conflict (1941–9) 11110 The Post-Civil-War Period (1949–67) 12711 Return to Democracy (1974–2009) 15312 Opposite Poles in Politics. Karamanlis vs. Papandreou 18413 Southern and Southeastern Europe: The Greek View 202Notes 216Selected Bibliography 235Index 249