A history of Greece
By: Nicholas Doumanis
Series: Palgrave essential histories; Palgrave essential histories
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basingstoke; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781403986139; 9781403986146
Description: Drawing on the latest research into ancient, medieval, and modern history, this single-volume traces the history of Greek culture and societies from the Bronze Age to the present. Written for the general reader and undergraduate student, it examines the continuities and changes across the entirety of Greek history --Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-247) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prehistory to 500 BC: beginnings; title: Classical Greece (500-359 BC): the golden age of the polis; title: The Hellenistic era (359-327 BC): from Philip II to Augustus; title: The Greek Roman empire I (27 BC-AD 527): from the Pax Romana to late antiquity; title: The Greek Roman empire II (c. 500-1200): the triumph of orthodoxy; title: The Greek oikoumene (1200-1700): living under Frankish and Ottoman rule; title: The making of modern Hellas (c. 1700-1911): ethnicity and state building; title: Greece in the twentieth century: the age of extremes.