Greece
There are 181 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
 Used: $19.95 Trade Paper List Price $53.75 
add to wish list |
|
A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and Culture
by Sarah Pomeroy  Publisher Comments This book reestablishes the importance of religion in the historical assessment of the Glorious Revolution and its consequences. The distinguished scholars who contributed to this volume explore a variety of themes, including the nature of religious...
|
||||||
New: $53.50 Hardcover List Price $56.95
add to wish list |
|
Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey
by Umut Ozkirimli Publisher Comments Tormented by History traces the emergence and development of the Greek and Turkish nationalist projects over the past two hundred years. Grounded in an extensive critical review of the historiography and literature on Greek and Turkish nationalisms, this...
|
||||||
Used: $7.95 Trade Paper List Price $14.95
add to wish list |
|
Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece
by Paul Cartledge Publisher Comments The Spartans were a society of warrior-heroes who were the living exemplars of such core values as duty, discipline, self-sacrifice, and extreme toughness. This book, written by one of the world's leading experts on Sparta, traces the rise and fall of...
|
||||||
Used: $13.95 Trade Paper List Price $28.00
add to wish list |
|
The World of Athens (Joint Association of Classical Teachers')
by Joint Association Of Publisher Comments The World of Athens is a serious, up-to-date account of the history and culture of fifth century Athens for adults, university students and sixth-formers with an intelligent interest in ancient Greece. The book, which is profusely illustrated, contains...
|
||||||
Sale: $7.98 Trade Paper List Price $16.95
add to wish list |
|
Daily Life in Greece At the Time of Peri
by Robert Flaceliere Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-299) and index....
|
||||||
New: $27.50 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Red Acropolis Black Terror
by Andre Gerolymatos Publisher Comments From 1944 to 1949, tens of thousands of Greek soldiers and guerrillas fought and slaughtered each other and thousands of innocents in a civil war of unrelenting and shocking savagery. In the wake of the Allied liberation of Greece, the fighting...
|
||||||
Used: $13.95 Trade Paper List Price $19.95
add to wish list |
|
Exploring the Greek Mosaic
by Benjamin J. Broome Synopsis This introduction to Greek values and behaviour aims to challenge readers to move beyond their image of an archaic and at times anarchic civilization to a richer appreciation of contemporary Greek society. The book seeks to provide an accurate guide to...
|
||||||
New: $28.95 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
The Struggle for Greece, 1941-1949
by C M Woodhouse Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-316) and index....
|
||||||
New: $16.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950
by Mark Mazower Publisher Comments Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions...
|
||||||
Used: $22.50 Trade Paper List Price $29.95
add to wish list |
|
Concise History of Byzantium (01 Edition)
by Warren Treadgold Publisher Comments Between 285 AD, when Byzantium first separated from the Western Roman Empire, and 1461, when the last Byzantine splinter state disappeared, the Byzantine state and society underwent many crises, triumphs, declines, and recoveries. Spanning twelve...
|
||||||
New: $90.95 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian
by Peter Sarris Synopsis Examines the social and economic context of the reign of the Emperor Justinian (527-65) and argues that, instead of the omnipotent autocrat of much imperial propaganda, there emerges an emperor desperately trying to reinforce the fiscal basis of the...
|
||||||
New: $39.55 Trade Paper List Price $44.95
add to wish list |
|
Readings in Greek History : Sources and Interpretations (07 Edition)
by D. Brendan Nagle Publisher Comments An ideal reader for courses in Greek history, Greek civilization, and Western civilization, this comprehensive collection of more than 180 historical source documents covers major aspects of Greek civilization from the Archaic Age through the end of the...
|
||||||
Used: $11.50 Trade Paper List Price $23.75
add to wish list |
|
Concise History of Greece (2ND 02 Edition)
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...
|
||||||
New: $51.25 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and His Reign: A Study of Tenth-Century Byzantium (Cambridge Paperback Library)
by Steven Runciman Publisher Comments This study, centred around the reign of the usurping Emperor Romanus Lecapenus, was originally published in 1929, reissued in 1963, and has been out of print for several years. It contributed to the revival of interest in Byzantine studies at that time...
|
||||||
New: $58.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology #77: The Making of the Modern Greek Family: Marriage and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Athens
by Paul Sant Cassia Publisher Comments This study deals with a specific set of institutions in nineteenth-century Athens. Relying on matrimonial contracts, travellers" accounts, memoirs and popular literature, the authors show how distinctive forms of marriage, kinship and property...
|
||||||
New: $58.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Modern Greece (Brief Histories)
by Thomas Gallant Publisher Comments This book is a concise history of the rich and varied experience of Greece and the Greeks over the past two centuries. It focuses on the forces and events that have shaped the country and its people, including urbanization, economic development...
|
||||||
Sale: $8.98 Trade Paper List Price $17.95
add to wish list |
|
Athens: A History, from Ancient Ideal to Modern City
by Robin Waterfield Publisher Comments In this engaging and readable narrative, noted classicist and author Robin Waterfield traces the life and history of the city of Athens, with an emphasis on the classical period when, in the space of a century, Athens reached the pinnacle of its power...
|
||||||
New: $24.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Studies in Sexual Inversion Embodying a Study in Greek Ethics and a Study in Modern Ethics
by John Addington Symonds Synopsis Homosexuality and pederasty in Greece and the modern age, an ethical reconsideration. Part one, a problem in Greek ethics, contains, among other chapters, Homer had no knowledge of pederasty - Achilles - treatment of Homer by the later Greeks; Romance of...
|
||||||
Sale: $7.98 Trade Paper List Price $19.95
add to wish list |
|
The Classical Greeks
by Michael Grant Publisher Comments The Golden Age of ancient Greek city-state civilization lasted from 490 to 336 B.C., the period between the first wars against Persia and Carthage and the ascension of Alexander the Great. Never has there been such a multiplication of talents and genius...
|
||||||
New: $38.50 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople, Short History
by Cyril Mango Review Cyril Mango's new commentary on the Breviarium of Nicephorus, with his introduction, text, translation, notes, and indices, becomes the safest guide to the vexed events of the seventh and eighth centuries...the first truly authoritative treatment of the...
|
||||||
