Antonis Liakos is Professor Emeritus as the University of Athens, where he taught contemporary history, as well as theory of history. He was chair of the International Commission of History and Theory (2010-2015), editor of Historein, co-founder of the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Thessaly, and author of numerous books, including The Greek Twentieth Century (Polis 2020 – in Greek) and the prize-winning book Apocalypse: Utopia and Historical knowledge (Polis 2011 – in Greek). He is now completing a book on the formation of a canon of history in world historiography. Nicholas Doumanis is Hellenic Foundation Chair of Hellenic Studies and Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He taught world history at the University of New South Wales between 2001 and 2022. His books include The Oxford Handbook of European History 1914-1945 (Oxford University Press, 2016), Before the Nation: Muslim and Christian Coexistence and its Destruction in the Late Ottoman Empire (Oxford University Press, 2013), A History of Greece (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and Myth and Memory in the Mediterranean (Macmillan, 1997). He is completing a history of the eastern Mediterranean.

Who are the Greeks? This volume provides new answers to the long-vexing question, situating its subject both within national boundaries and broader global context. With this truly modern and sophisticated history, Liakos and Doumanis provide an account of Greece's - and the Greeks' -dynamic, complex and complicated twentieth century.

• List of Illustrations Nte on TransliterationsPreface and Acknowledgements Series Editors’ Preface1. Introduction: The Greeks at the beginning of the twentieth century 2. The ‘long First World War’ (1912–1922) 3. The wider Greek world I: The end of the age of empire 4. State and society during the interwar period (1922–1941) 5. The Occupation: Greece under the Axis (1941–1944)6. The Civil War (1945–1949)7. The post-war era (1950–1974) 8. The wider Greek world II: From nationalism to multiculturalism 9. Springtime for democracy: Metapolitefsi (1974–1985) 10. European integration and globalisation (1985–2008) 11. The Crisis years (2008–2021) Guide to Further ReadingBibliographyIndex

Antonis Liakos is Professor Emeritus as the University of Athens, where he taught contemporary history, as well as theory of history. He was chair of the International Commission of History and Theory (2010-2015), editor of Historein, co-founder of the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Thessaly, and author of numerous books, including The Greek Twentieth Century (Polis 2020 – in Greek) and the prize-winning book Apocalypse: Utopia and Historical knowledge (Polis 2011 – in Greek). He is now completing a book on the formation of a canon of history in world historiography. Nicholas Doumanis is Hellenic Foundation Chair of Hellenic Studies and Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He taught world history at the University of New South Wales between 2001 and 2022. His books include The Oxford Handbook of European History 1914-1945 (Oxford University Press, 2016), Before the Nation: Muslim and Christian Coexistence and its Destruction in the Late Ottoman Empire (Oxford University Press, 2013), A History of Greece (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and Myth and Memory in the Mediterranean (Macmillan, 1997). He is completing a history of the eastern Mediterranean.

Who are the Greeks? This volume provides new answers to the long-vexing question, situating its subject both within national boundaries and broader global context. With this truly modern and sophisticated history, Liakos and Doumanis provide an account of Greece's - and the Greeks' -dynamic, complex and complicated twentieth century.

• List of Illustrations Nte on TransliterationsPreface and Acknowledgements Series Editors’ Preface1. Introduction: The Greeks at the beginning of the twentieth century 2. The ‘long First World War’ (1912–1922) 3. The wider Greek world I: The end of the age of empire 4. State and society during the interwar period (1922–1941) 5. The Occupation: Greece under the Axis (1941–1944)6. The Civil War (1945–1949)7. The post-war era (1950–1974) 8. The wider Greek world II: From nationalism to multiculturalism 9. Springtime for democracy: Metapolitefsi (1974–1985) 10. European integration and globalisation (1985–2008) 11. The Crisis years (2008–2021) Guide to Further ReadingBibliographyIndex

Antonis Liakos is Professor Emeritus as the University of Athens, where he taught contemporary history, as well as theory of history. He was chair of the International Commission of History and Theory (2010-2015), editor of Historein, co-founder of the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Thessaly, and author of numerous books, including The Greek Twentieth Century (Polis 2020 – in Greek) and the prize-winning book Apocalypse: Utopia and Historical knowledge (Polis 2011 – in Greek). He is now completing a book on the formation of a canon of history in world historiography. Nicholas Doumanis is Hellenic Foundation Chair of Hellenic Studies and Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He taught world history at the University of New South Wales between 2001 and 2022. His books include The Oxford Handbook of European History 1914-1945 (Oxford University Press, 2016), Before the Nation: Muslim and Christian Coexistence and its Destruction in the Late Ottoman Empire (Oxford University Press, 2013), A History of Greece (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and Myth and Memory in the Mediterranean (Macmillan, 1997). He is completing a history of the eastern Mediterranean.

Who are the Greeks? This volume provides new answers to the long-vexing question, situating its subject both within national boundaries and broader global context. With this truly modern and sophisticated history, Liakos and Doumanis provide an account of Greece's - and the Greeks' -dynamic, complex and complicated twentieth century.

• List of Illustrations Nte on TransliterationsPreface and Acknowledgements Series Editors’ Preface1. Introduction: The Greeks at the beginning of the twentieth century 2. The ‘long First World War’ (1912–1922) 3. The wider Greek world I: The end of the age of empire 4. State and society during the interwar period (1922–1941) 5. The Occupation: Greece under the Axis (1941–1944)6. The Civil War (1945–1949)7. The post-war era (1950–1974) 8. The wider Greek world II: From nationalism to multiculturalism 9. Springtime for democracy: Metapolitefsi (1974–1985) 10. European integration and globalisation (1985–2008) 11. The Crisis years (2008–2021) Guide to Further ReadingBibliographyIndex