Richard Clogg
Autor(a) de A Concise History of Greece
About the Author
Richard Clogg is a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford.
Obras por Richard Clogg
The Struggle for Greek independence; essays to mark the 150th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence (1973) 6 exemplares
Among the journals 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Scholars, travels, archives : Greek history and culture through the British School at Athens : proceedings of a… (2009) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1939
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Order of Honour (Greece) (2002)
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Críticas
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Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 21
- Also by
- 3
- Membros
- 267
- Popularidade
- #86,454
- Avaliação
- 3.3
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 47
- Línguas
- 7
Interesting, fast-moving history of Greek politics from the late 1700s and the tail end of Ottoman rule through the 1990s. Not much room for anything aside from headline politics, however.
Struck by the history of exploitation by the Ottomans, British, Bulgarians, Italians, French, Russians and Americans. We’ve all buggered Greece in one way or other. The Germans worst of all during their brutal occupation and most recently in their role of EU overlords, though of course this book pre-dates the latter atrocity.
The Americans’ most damaging blow was likely the same game they played everywhere in the 50s and 60s in outlawing the Communist Party and sponsoring a brutal dictatorship. The Greeks being a nation that appear to have a particularly strong predilection for mutual aid and democracy, they naturally lean left. During the takeover by the fascist military junta and decade of dictatorship, it was of course the outlaw communists that were the sole defenders of democracy while the U.S. sponsored the fascists and Europe looked on. So it goes.… (mais)