Richard Clogg
Autor/a de A Concise History of Greece
Sobre l'autor
Richard Clogg is a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford.
Obres de Richard Clogg
The Struggle for Greek independence; essays to mark the 150th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence (1973) 6 exemplars
Academic freedom and the perils of sponsorship 1 exemplars
Among the journals 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Scholars, travels, archives : Greek history and culture through the British School at Athens : proceedings of a… (2009) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1939
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Premis i honors
- Order of Honour (Greece) (2002)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 21
- També de
- 3
- Membres
- 267
- Popularitat
- #86,454
- Valoració
- 3.3
- Ressenyes
- 3
- ISBN
- 47
- Llengües
- 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.… (més)