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The Greek War of Independence: The Struggle for Freedom from Ottoman Oppression and the Birth of the Modern Greek Nation by David Brewer Publisher Comments The Greek War of Independence is a masterful work--the first comprehensive study in thirty years--of one of the most heroic and bloody struggles for independence any people has ever waged. David Brewer has captured this period of world history... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The History of Greece (Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations) by Elaine Thomopoulos Publisher Comments Modern Greece started as a monarchy in 1832, with just a fraction of the land it now encompasses. The nation of Greece finally forged its identity in the 19th and 20th centuries after emerging from 400 years of Ottoman domination. This book traces the... (read more) List Price $71.95 Your price: $38.86 New - Hardcover
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Roumeli Travels in Northern Greece by Patrick Lee Fermor Publisher Comments Roumeli is not to be found on present-day maps. It is the name once given to northern Greece--stretching from the Bosporus to the Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth, a name that evokes a world where the present is inseparably bound up... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Hellas: Photographs of Modern Greece by William Abranowicz Synopsis William Abranowicz has photographed Greece for over a decade and his images show all dimensions of Greek life: its stores and cafes, its ancient ruins, its craggy mountains and its villages rising out of brilliant aquamarine waters. Collectively these... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $33.50 New - Hardcover
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Ergasteria: Works Presented to John Ellis Jones on His 80th Birthday by Nicholas Sekunda Publisher Comments This volume is the fourth to appear in the monograph series 'Akanthina', published for the Institute of Archaeology of Gdansk University, Poland. As the title suggests, the volume, which was presented to John Ellis Jones on his 80th birthday of October... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $33.50 New - Hardcover
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Greece: An Illustrated History (Illustrated Histories) by Tom Stone Publisher Comments From the Cenozoic upheavals which formed the Greek archipelago to the political movements in the twentieth century that overturned both a military junta and the monarchy, this informative and entertaining survey covers the political, artistic, and... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Journal of Roman Pottery Studies; V.14. by Pamela V. Irving And Steven Willis Synopsis Volume 14 contains papers on recent and current work on Roman pottery from around Britain, with papers also on case studies from the Netherlands and Gaul. Contents: Roman pottery from the Channel Tunnel Rail Link section 1, Kent (Paul Booth); Grey face... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price: $32.16 New - Trade Paper
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The Historical Present in Thucydides: Semantics and Narrative Function = Le Prsent Historique Chez Thucydide: Smantique Et Fonction Narrative by Jean Lallot Et Al Book News Annotation Classicists from across Europe, and one from the US, explore how Greek historian Thucydides (460-400 BC) occasionally used the present indicative tense, rather than the usual imperfect and aorist, to mark events that the he considered crucial, or... (read more) List Price $159.50 Your price: $99.16 New - Hardcover
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Ancient West & East; V.5 No.1-2. Synopsis Originally published as a double issue of Volume 5 (2006) of Brill's bi-annual Ancient West & East,... (read more) List Price $230.25 Your price: $94.00 New - Hardcover
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A Concise History of Greece (Cambridge Concise Histories) by Richard Clogg Publisher Comments This book provides a concise, illustrated introduction to the history of modern Greece, from the first stirrings of the national movement in the late eighteenth century to the present day. It is designed to provide a basic introduction for general and... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Eleni: A Savage War, a Mother's Love & Son's Revenge - A Personal Story by Nicholas Gage Publisher Comments In 1948, as civil war ravaged Greece, children were abducted and sent to communist "camps" inside the Iron Curtain. Eleni Gatzoyiannis, forty-one, defied the traditions of her small village and the terror of the communist insurgents to arrange... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Mass Market
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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Mediterranean Antiquities; V.2: the Terracotta Objects. by Zo Book News Annotation The series reflects the arrangement of artifacts in the museum by material, and this volume considers mostly figurines and lamps made of terra cotta, but also a near life-size head and an arula (portable alter), and--the gravity of object type having... (read more) List Price $164.50 Your price: $103.18 New - Hardcover
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The Most Beautiful Villages of Greece (Most Beautiful Villages) by Mark Ottaway Publisher Comments From the terra cotta and ocher of the Ionian Islands to the brilliant blues and whites of the Aegean, the villages of Greece and its islands are incomparable. The variety of village life and buildings springs from a multitude of histories and influences,... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Latin Renovatio of Byzantium: The Empire of Constantinople (1204-1228) by Filip Van. Trans. By Peter Longbottom Tricht Book News Annotation In this thorough revision of a part of the author's doctoral thesis (at the U. of Ghent), the Crusader Latin rule in Constantinople is examined in painstaking detail, based on contemporary chronicles and other data, and with attention to the changing... (read more) List Price $240.25 Your price: $152.09 New - Hardcover
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Ill Met by Moonlight by W Stanley Moss Publisher Comments In 1944 British commando W. Stanley Moss hatches his most daring adventure of all: to kidnap the Nazi General Kriepe, commander of the Sevastopol Division in Crete, and spirit him back to British-occupied Egypt. This is his story. From the split-second... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Waterloo: In the Footsteps of the Commanders by Jonathon Gillespie-payne Publisher Comments An original approach to understanding the events that made Waterloo such 'a damned close-run thing'.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $19.98 New - Trade Paper
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Greece, the Hidden Centuries (10 Edition) by David Brewer Publisher Comments For almost 400 years, between the fall of Constantinople and the Greek War of Independence, the history of Greece is shrouded in mystery, distorted by Greek writers and begging the question: What was life really like for the Greeks under Ottoman rule... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $21.50 Used - Hardcover
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Twice a Stranger (09 Edition) by Bruce Clark Publisher Comments In the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire following World War I, nearly two million citizens in Turkey and Greece were expelled from homelands. The Lausanne treaty resulted in the deportation of Orthodox Christians from Turkey to Greece and of Muslims... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Keos Keos #10: Ayia Irini: The Western Sector by Elizabeth Schofield Book News Annotation This is the tenth volume in a series devoted to Keos comprising the results of excavations conducted by the University of Cincinnati under the auspices of The American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The Western Sector is distinguished by its... (read more) List Price $129.00 Your price: $86.43 New - Hardcover
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Ancient West & East; V.4 No.2. Publisher Comments Ancient West & East is a peer-reviewed (bi-)annual devoted to the study of the history and archaeology of the periphery of the Graeco-Roman world, concentrating on local societies and cultures and their interaction with the Graeco-Roman, Near Eastern... (read more) List Price $172.50 Your price: $62.00 New - Hardcover
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