HistoreinPub Date : 2021-07-06DOI: 10.12681/HISTOREIN.24577
Rolf Petri
{"title":"David Vincent, A History of Solitude","authors":"Rolf Petri","doi":"10.12681/HISTOREIN.24577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HISTOREIN.24577","url":null,"abstract":"Review of David Vincent. A History of Solitude. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020. 341 pp. ","PeriodicalId":38128,"journal":{"name":"Historein","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47225554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoreinPub Date : 2021-07-06DOI: 10.12681/HISTOREIN.18371
Panagiotis Stathis
{"title":"The Historiography of the Greek Revolution of 1821: From Memoirs to National Scholarly History, 1821–1922","authors":"Panagiotis Stathis","doi":"10.12681/HISTOREIN.18371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HISTOREIN.18371","url":null,"abstract":"This study discusses the historiography of the Greek Revolution of 1821, what in Greek is often referred to as “Twenty-One” (Eikosiena) or the “Struggle” (Agon). Since 1821 constitutes the founding condition of the Greek state and autonomous existence of the Greek nation, it can be considered as the main historiographical field of modern Greek history. Throughout most of the twentieth century it represented a field of conflict between opposing historiographical but also ideological and political currents. Opposing ideological environments and collective identities formed different readings of Greek history in which the Greek Revolution played a central role. Its reading and interpretation served as the compass for reading and interpreting the whole process of modern Greek historical development. Opposing collectives also made selective use of the history of 1821 by searching for their “ancestors” in the revolutionary past; thus they formed historical genealogies through which they could claim authentic continuity with leading social groups and figures of the revolution. Consequently, 1821 obtained exemplary power. Accordingly each of its readings functioned as the starting point in shaping the political practice in the present. In other words, each and every reading of 1821 formed or supported directional guides of political practices in the present.","PeriodicalId":38128,"journal":{"name":"Historein","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44483576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoreinPub Date : 2021-07-06DOI: 10.12681/HISTOREIN.25282
Vangelis Karamanolakis
{"title":"Who is the Historian? The Formation of Modern Greek History and the Historical Community in the Short Twentieth Century","authors":"Vangelis Karamanolakis","doi":"10.12681/HISTOREIN.25282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HISTOREIN.25282","url":null,"abstract":"The position of historian emerged as a distinct academic and professional field in Greece in the last quarter of the 20th century. In an attempt to explore this “delay” in comparison to Western European countries, this article offers an overview of the making of the field of modern Greek history during the twentieth century. Starting from the gradual acknowledgment of the autonomy of modern Greek history in relation to classical and Byzantine studies, the article traces its evolution and its close ties to political and social developments. The prevalence of historical positivism and philological principles, along with the dominance of the ideology of national continuity – the latter enriched through the postwar ideologies of national-mindedness and anticommunism – led to the persistence of the “historian-philologist” until 1974. The fall of the military dictatorship in 1974, which marked the end of the post-Greek Civil War era, was a catalyst for the flowering of modern Greek studies and the formation of a small but distinct community of historians, who regularly intervened in the public sphere.","PeriodicalId":38128,"journal":{"name":"Historein","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41324132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoreinPub Date : 2021-07-06DOI: 10.12681/HISTOREIN.20499
Evdoxios Doxiadis
{"title":"Giorgos Antoniou and A. Dirk Moses, eds., The Holocaust in Greece","authors":"Evdoxios Doxiadis","doi":"10.12681/HISTOREIN.20499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HISTOREIN.20499","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Giorgos Antoniou and A. Dirk Moses, eds. The Holocaust in Greece.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xv + 378 pp.","PeriodicalId":38128,"journal":{"name":"Historein","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45309220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoreinPub Date : 2021-07-06DOI: 10.12681/historein.23353
Dimitris Plantzos
{"title":"Dimitris Papanikolaou, Κάτι τρέχει με την οικογένεια: Έθνος, πόθος και συγγένεια την εποχή της κρίσης [There is something about the family: Nation, desire and kinship at a time of crisis]","authors":"Dimitris Plantzos","doi":"10.12681/historein.23353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/historein.23353","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Dimitris Papanikolaou. Κάτι τρέχει με την οικογένεια: Έθνος, πόθος και συγγένεια την εποχή της κρίσης [There is something about the family: Nation, desire and kinship at a time of crisis]. Athens: Patakis, 2018. 448 pp.","PeriodicalId":38128,"journal":{"name":"Historein","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45547323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoreinPub Date : 2021-07-06DOI: 10.12681/HISTOREIN.19500
Sakis Gekas, C. Acosta
{"title":"Greece, Uruguay and the British Informal Empire: From National Narratives to Global History","authors":"Sakis Gekas, C. Acosta","doi":"10.12681/HISTOREIN.19500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HISTOREIN.19500","url":null,"abstract":"This article adopts a comparative global history approach to reflect on the histories of Greece and Uruguay through the prism of British informal imperial rule. It compares and contrasts the role and impact of the British informal empire on Greece and Uruguay’s economic integration into the globalising economy of the late nineteenth century. The aim of this article is twofold: to reflect on each country’s past to gain a better understanding of them, and to integrate the histories of Greece and Uruguay into the history of globalisation. To achieve this, we examine the place of each country in the globalising economy and the reasons why each country “performed” differently; Uruguay experienced some of the highest living standards in the region and the world while Greece was mired in wars and aggressive nationalist policies that lead to significant territorial (and therefore market) expansion at significant cost to state finances – a history that was marked by economic failures such as the default of 1893. Even that crisis, however, produced different outcomes depending on each country’s place in the globalising British informal empire. This article shows two different paths of integration into a globalising economy shaped by the British financial and commercial order – an order often imposed with consent and occasionally through coercion.","PeriodicalId":38128,"journal":{"name":"Historein","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43978147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoreinPub Date : 2021-07-06DOI: 10.12681/HISTOREIN.24179
Christine M. Philliou
{"title":"Konstantina Zanou, Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800–1850: Stammering the Nation","authors":"Christine M. Philliou","doi":"10.12681/HISTOREIN.24179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HISTOREIN.24179","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Konstantina Zanou. Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800–1850: Stammering the Nation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 272 pp.","PeriodicalId":38128,"journal":{"name":"Historein","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46651061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoreinPub Date : 2021-07-06DOI: 10.12681/HISTOREIN.23651
D. Stamatopoulos
{"title":"Diana Mishkova, Beyond Balkanism: The Scholarly Politics of Region Making","authors":"D. Stamatopoulos","doi":"10.12681/HISTOREIN.23651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HISTOREIN.23651","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Diana Mishkova. Beyond Balkanism: The Scholarly Politics of Region Making. London: Routledge, 2018. 282 pp. ","PeriodicalId":38128,"journal":{"name":"Historein","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43698619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoreinPub Date : 2021-07-06DOI: 10.12681/historein.24535
Androniki Dialeti
{"title":"Anna Matthaiou, Οικογένεια και σεξουαλικότητα: Μεταξύ παράδοσης και νεωτερικότητας (ελληνικές μαρτυρίες, 17ος–αρχές 19ου αι.) [Family and sexuality: Between tradition and modernity (Greek testimonies, 17th–early 19th centuries)]","authors":"Androniki Dialeti","doi":"10.12681/historein.24535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/historein.24535","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Anna Matthaiou. Οικογένεια και σεξουαλικότητα: Μεταξύ παράδοσης και νεωτερικότητας (ελληνικές μαρτυρίες, 17ος–αρχές 19ου αι.) [Family and sexuality: Between tradition and modernity (Greek testimonies, 17th–early 19th centuries)]. Athens: Melissa, 2019. 276 pp. ","PeriodicalId":38128,"journal":{"name":"Historein","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47652314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}