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{"title":"Resituating Europe's Greek Origins from the Athenian Polis to the Cypriot Sugar Plantation","authors":"D. Bjelić","doi":"10.1353/mgs.2024.a925794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2024.a925794","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43810,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141026888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Fourth of August Regime and Greek Jewry, 1936–1941 by Katerina Lagos (review)","authors":"Mogens Pelt","doi":"10.1353/mgs.2024.a925803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2024.a925803","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>The Fourth of August Regime and Greek Jewry, 1936–1941</em> by Katerina Lagos <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Mogens Pelt (bio) </li> </ul> Katerina Lagos, <em>The Fourth of August Regime and Greek Jewry, 1936–1941</em>. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. Pp. xi + 273. Hardcover $129.99, eBook $99.00. <p>Although this book's title might suggest a focus solely on Greek Jewry under the Metaxas regime, its scope is much broader. It traces the history of Greek Jews from the Greek Revolution to the death of Ioannis Metaxas in January 1941, while at the same time presenting a comprehensive historical analysis of the relationship between Greek Jewry and the Greek state and society during the Metaxas regime. It may seem counterintuitive to end the book with the death of Metaxas since, only a few years later, most members of the Jewish communities in Greece were killed during the Axis occupation: 85% of Greece's local Jewish population were exterminated during the Holocaust, one of the highest percentages in Europe. The role of the Greek population ranged from assisting the Nazis in the deportation to hiding Jews and protecting them from persecution.</p> <p>Lagos's main argument for zeroing in on the Metaxas period is twofold. First, the historiography concerning Greek Jews has focused mainly on the Holocaust, and we need to go beyond that period to establish an analytical context and explain the prior development of relations between Christian and Jewish Greeks. Second, Lagos argues that that the treatment of Jews by Greek Christians during the deportations should not be seen as a culmination of their treatment under Metaxas. On the contrary: the Metaxas dictatorship was the last period of peaceful Christian-Jewish relations before the Holocaust, something for which Metaxas himself was credited: in November 1937, he was inducted into the Golden Book by the Zionists of Greece, and the rabbi of Thessaloniki congratulated Metaxas on reestablishing an atmosphere of peace and calm for the Jewish community since taking power the year before. At first glance, when seen in a European context where most authoritarian regimes enacted <strong>[End Page 127]</strong> anti-Jewish legislation, this may appear as a conundrum; even more so because the Metaxas dictatorship resembled the regimes in Germany and Italy in its way of presenting itself to the public. Yet the regime's stance toward Jews was in fact much more favorable than that of previous governments, including those of Eleftherios Venizelos, the leader of the Liberal Party who had previously governed Greece in long stints since 1910. This raises two questions: How should we understand the Metaxas regime, and why did it follow such a different policy compared to contemporary Europe and to previous Greek governments?</p> <p>Lagos's thesis is that prejudice toward","PeriodicalId":43810,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140828938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Raisins and Nationalism: Revisiting the Greek Vision of Modernization through World's Fairs (1893–1915)","authors":"Alexandros Balasis","doi":"10.1353/mgs.2024.a925796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2024.a925796","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>World's fairs organized at the turn of the twentieth century offered glimpses into humanity's aspirations for the future. Since they were primarily a place to promote progress and industrialization, one would expect Greek participation in these exhibitions to follow a similar approach. But the country's presence in the international exhibitions in Chicago (1893), Paris (1900), Brussels (1910), and San Francisco (1915) proves that the groups of prominent academics, technocrats, and business leaders who undertook the organization of Greek participation viewed world's fairs less as platforms to demonstrate industrial advancements and more as sites to promote and reinforce their nationalistic ideals. By exhibiting ancient Greek and Byzantine artifacts, Greece's pavilions sought to connect the modern state with its glorious past and reaffirm its European identity. The organizers' alternative viewpoint on what can represent modernity challenges our understanding of the Greek interpretation of modernization. Contrary to the prevailing notions in Greek historiography that linked modernity exclusively with industrialization, the exhibits displayed by the country abroad prompt a reconsideration of our interpretation of Greek progress, highlighting the influence of the irredentist concept of the Great Idea.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":43810,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140828943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contributor","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mgs.2024.a925806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2024.a925806","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Contributor <!-- /html_title --></li> </ul> <p><strong>Alexandros Balasis</strong> is a PhD candidate in History at York University, Toronto. He is interested in modern Greek history, having studied issues of modernity and nationalism. His current research centers around transoceanic migration, focusing on migrants' agency and their interactions with migration policies.</p> <p><strong>Dušan I. Bjelić</strong> is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern Maine. His research interests include Balkan studies with an emphasis on the Balkans' relation to Europe in light of the Balkans' history of racial capitalism. He is the co-editor, with Obrad Savić, of <em>Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation</em> (MIT Press, 2003); the author of <em>Normalizing the Balkans: Geopolitics of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry</em> (Routledge, 2011) and <em>Intoxication, Modernity, and Colonialism: Freud's Industrial Unconscious, Benjamin's Hashish Mimesis</em> (Palgrave, 2017); and the editor of <em>Balkan Transnationalism at the Time of Neoliberal Catastrophe</em> (Routledge, 2019).</p> <p><strong>Karen Emmerich</strong> is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, where she currently directs the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication. She is also a translator of Greek poetry, prose, and drama. She is the author of <em>Literary Translation and the Making of Originals</em> (2017) and has translated books by Miltos Sachtouris, Eleni Vakalo, Yannis Ritsos, Ersi Sotiropoulos, Christos Ikonomou, Amanda Michalopoulou, and others.</p> <p><strong>Sofia Fragoulopoulou</strong> holds two postgraduate degrees, one in the domain of cultural management (Department of Communication, Media, and Culture, Panteion University) and one in the domain of cultural anthropology (Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University). She also holds a PhD in the History of Museums and Collections from the Department of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is working as an archaeologist in the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Her research interests include the interconnections between material culture and cultural memory and the history of women in the field of archaeology.</p> <p><strong>Thomas W. Gallant</strong> is Distinguished Professor and holder of the Nicholas Family Endowed Chair in Modern Greek History at the University of California San Diego. He has published extensively on modern Greek social and economic history and historical archaeology.</p> <p><strong>Theodoros Kouros</strong> is Lecturer at the Department of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology. His primary research interests include state and statecraft, bureaucracy, and resistance tactics and strategies.</p> <p><strong>Tomasz Lidzbarski</strong> is a PhD cand","PeriodicalId":43810,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140828745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Cypriot collection of Petrarchist and other Renaissance poems ed. by Paschalis M. Kitromilides, and: Studies on the Cypriot Collection of Renaissance poems ed. by Marina Rodosthenous-Balafa (review)","authors":"Simos Zenios","doi":"10.1353/mgs.2024.a925799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2024.a925799","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>The Cypriot collection of Petrarchist and other Renaissance poems</em> ed. by Paschalis M. Kitromilides, and: <em>Studies on the Cypriot Collection of Renaissance poems</em> ed. by Marina Rodosthenous-Balafa <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Simos Zenios (bio) </li> </ul> Paschalis M. Kitromilides (Πασχάλης Μ. Κιτρομηλίδης), editor, <em>Η κυπριακή συλλογή πετραρχικών και άλλων αναγεννησιακών ποιημάτων</em> [ <em>The Cypriot collection of Petrarchist and other Renaissance poems</em>]. Introduction by Elsie Tornaritou-Mathiopoulou (Έλση Τορναρίτου-Μαθιοπούλου). Accompanying texts by Giovanna Carbonaro and Irene Papadaki (Ειρήνη Παπαδάκη). Athens: National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2018. Pp. 335. Paper €25.00. Marina Rodosthenous-Balafa (Μαρίνα Ροδοσθένους-Μπαλάφα), editor, <em>Μελέτες για την κυπριακή</em> Συλλογή <em>αναγεννησιακών ποιημάτων</em> [ <em><span>Studies on the Cypriot</span> Collection <span>of Renaissance poems</span></em>]. Athens: National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2022. Pp. 153. Paper €20.00. <p>The two publications under review are the latest to appear in the National Hellenic Research Foundation's Sources of Cypriot Learning and History series, which, under the general editorship of Paschalis M. Kitromilides, has made difficult-to-find and valuable texts from early modern Cyprus accessible to scholars and students. Both these publications depart, in different ways, from the established character of the series. The earlier volume, <em>The Cypriot Collection of Petrarchist and Other Renaissance Poems</em> (henceforth, <em>The Cypriot Collection</em>), edited by Kitromilides, publishes the well-known anonymous collection of 156 poems in codex <em>Marc. gr</em>. IX 32, created between circa 1550 and 1570/71, together with a number of introductory studies, both new and previously published. The collection is well known even to non-specialist scholars and the broader public. It is the crowning achievement of early modern Cypriot literature and it represents the most direct and innovative engagement with Petrarchism that is attested in early modern Greek literature. The collection has been published before: first, accompanied by a French translation, in Siapkara-Pitsillidès 1952 (second edition in 1975; also, Siapkaras-Pitsillidès 1976, with translation into modern Greek and intended for a non-specialist audience) and, more recently, in <strong>[End Page 108]</strong> Carbonaro 2012, an edition that relies upon and proposes corrections to the text established by Siapkaras-Pitsillidès and which is accompanied by a translation into Italian. The poems of the collection have also been the object of numerous studies by successive generations of scholars. The second volume under review, <em>Studies on the Cypriot</em> Collection <em>of Renaissance Poems</em> (henceforth, <em>Studies on ","PeriodicalId":43810,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140828678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Condemned by Konstantinos Theotokis, and: Niki by Christos Chomenidis, and: Time Stitches by Eleni Kefala (review)","authors":"Karen Emmerich","doi":"10.1353/mgs.2024.a925800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2024.a925800","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Condemned</em> by Konstantinos Theotokis, and: <em>Niki</em> by Christos Chomenidis, and: <em>Time Stitches</em> by Eleni Kefala <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Karen Emmerich (bio) </li> </ul> Konstantinos Theotokis, <em>Condemned</em>. Translated by Susan and Miltiades Matthias. Foreword by Vangelis Calotychos. River Vale, NJ: Cosmos Publishing, 2021. Pp. 157. Paper $21.95. Christos Chomenidis, <em>Niki</em>. Translated by Patricia Felisa Barbeito. New York: Other Press, 2023. Pp. 482. Paper $18.99. Eleni Kefala, <em>Χρονορραφία/</em> <em>Time Stitches</em>. Translated by Peter Constantine. Dallas, TX: Phoneme Media and Deep Vellum, 2022. Pp. 199. Paper $15.95. <p>Many of us in the field of Modern Greek Studies who teach at colleges and universities in North America have long lamented the fact that Greek language programs (where they exist at all) are often small, understaffed, and underfunded, such that only the lucky few are able to take courses beyond the second year, while more robust programs in other, more commonly taught non-English languages can offer topics courses in which students read, speak, and write primarily or exclusively in those languages. For fields like ours, translations play outsized roles; virtually no class in Modern Greek Studies could exist without them, but we remain hampered in our teaching and research alike by the paucity of readily available texts in translation, particularly of Greek-language scholarship in all the disciplines that comprise our interdisciplinary field. Still, while there are countless texts that many of us would love to see translated, and existing translations that we would love to see reprinted, the wealth of recently published English-language translations of Greek-language literary texts is a fact to be celebrated.</p> <p>The present review will offer brief thoughts on a few such translations, while also highlighting the work of particular translators and publishing houses that have been steadily expanding the available offerings for educators, students, and general readers. It also has the aim of encouraging all of us in the field to make a habit of familiarizing ourselves with recent publications and incorporating newly available texts into our courses: course adoptions can have a significant effect on book sales and thus on a publisher's willingness to take risks on other Greek-language works in future. For better or for worse, many publishers <em>do</em> still think of book sales in these terms—and the more we do as an academic community to support individual works translated from Greek, the greater the effect we will likely have on the entire field of Greek-language literature in translation.</p> <p>My review takes up for discussion three quite heterogeneous books: Susan and Miltiadis Matthias's translation of Konstantinos Theotokis's 19","PeriodicalId":43810,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140828934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Real and the Ideal: The Field of the Asia Minor Expedition as Memoryscape and the Politics of Collective Memory","authors":"Sofia Fragoulopoulou","doi":"10.1353/mgs.2024.a925795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2024.a925795","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>In the summer of 1921, the Greek armies had succeeded in occupying part of Greece's claimed territories in Asia Minor. Although the outcome of the Greco-Turkish war had yet to be decided, the Greek minister of military affairs proposed that a public war memorial park be constructed in Athens, a park-monument where the Asia Minor locations under Greek control would be presented metonymically. The project, visualized on a detailed map, foresaw the transport of ancient Greek antiquities from Asia Minor and their selective positioning in the park so as to create a spatio-temporal miscellany. In the proposed memorial park, space, time, and Greek antiquity were to produce a new locus, a memoryscape, that went beyond existing frontiers and outside experienced time. The plan to create a cultural mnemonic marker monumentalizing the Asia Minor Campaign sought not only to shape the national identity but also to proclaim and promote Greece's demand for annexation of the Asia Minor territories.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":43810,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140828944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Passport Island: The Market for EU Citizenship in Cyprus by Theodoros Rakopoulos (review)","authors":"Theodoros Kouros","doi":"10.1353/mgs.2024.a925805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2024.a925805","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Passport Island: The Market for EU Citizenship in Cyprus</em> by Theodoros Rakopoulos <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Theodoros Kouros (bio) </li> </ul> Theodoros Rakopoulos, <em>Passport Island: The Market for EU Citizenship in Cyprus</em>. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2023. Pp. xiii + 262. 21 illustrations, 2 tables. Hardcover £85.00. <p>In this groundbreaking and well written monograph, Rakopoulos undertakes a pioneering exploration into the intricate realm of the Citizenship by Investment (CBI) program of the Republic of Cyprus (RoC). This seminal work stands out as the first monograph to scrutinize comprehensively a phenomenon not confined to the borders of the RoC or the European Union, that of the so-called \"golden passports\"—schemes that grant citizenship rights to people who invest a certain amount of money in the country that grants the citizenship. Driven by meticulous ethnographic research and an anthropologist's discerning eye for detail and meaning, Rakopoulos's narrative not only dissects the operational mechanics of the RoC's CBI program but also untangles the complex web of social, cultural, and economic implications entwined with the commodification of citizenship.</p> <p>This first ethnographic exploration of investment migration illuminates the global mobility of elites while challenging established notions of citizenship. Rakopoulos contends that the dynamics of citizenship are profoundly entrenched in local contexts. Through insightful ethnographic fieldwork with both the \"makers\" (local brokers) and the \"takers\" (international investor-clients), the author delves into the multifaceted nature of citizenship transactions. A key revelation in the monograph has to do with the impact of crisis discourse, rather than the materiality of crisis, on the formulation of cash-for-passports schemes (223), and the monograph thus challenges conventional perspectives on material crises. Furthermore, Rakopoulos asserts that the sale of citizenship involves a complex interplay of political and economic valuations, with repercussions for global inequality, the real estate industry, and local societies.</p> <p>The case study of the RoC sheds light on the tangible effects of citizenship commodification, including the proliferation of iconic \"passport towers,\" especially in Limassol. The ensuing impacts on local rents, environmental degradation, and corruption demonstrate the intricate layers of the phenomenon. The monograph advocates for a comparative examination of citizenship-by-investment schemes on a global scale, in order to comprehend citizenship's evolution amid the forces of globalization and neoliberalism. In a thought-provoking conclusion, Rakopoulos questions whether contemporary analyses of citizenship overlook its historical link with property, positing that <strong>","PeriodicalId":43810,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140828926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Influence of \"Greek Lifestyle\" Perceptions on Polish Migration and Settlement on Zakynthos","authors":"Tomasz Lidzbarski","doi":"10.1353/mgs.2024.a925797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2024.a925797","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>Polish migrants on Zakynthos, who form a largely understudied group within the broader category of non-Greek Europeans residing long-term in Greece, craft intricate views of what they consider the \"Greek lifestyle.\" Ethnographic fieldwork not only reveals how the Polish community on Zakynthos defines this specific way of life but also highlights how these particular perceptions significantly influence decisions to migrate and settle on the island.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":43810,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140828741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Shaping and Reshaping the Global Monetary Order during the Interwar Period and Beyond: Local Actors in-between the International Institutions ed. by Catherine P. Brégianni and Roser Cussó (review)","authors":"Jay K. Rosengard","doi":"10.1353/mgs.2024.a925802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2024.a925802","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Shaping and Reshaping the Global Monetary Order during the Interwar Period and Beyond: Local Actors in-between the International Institutions</em> ed. by Catherine P. Brégianni and Roser Cussó <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Jay K. Rosengard (bio) </li> </ul> Catherine P. Brégianni and Roser Cussó, editors, <em>Shaping and Reshaping the Global Monetary Order during the Interwar Period and Beyond: Local Actors in-between the International Institutions</em>. History and Historical Theory 3. Athens: Alfeios Editions and TransMonEA Project, Academy of Athens–HFRI, 2023. Pp. 323. Non-commercial publication. <p>This publication is a multifaceted analysis of the global monetary regime's evolution, from the disintegrating impacts of the Great Depression during the interwar period to the often inequitable and destabilizing adaptations of the postwar era. This transformation is investigated via what the authors call a \"financial engineering process\" generated by interactions between governments and global financial institutions within the context of national and international political economies. The volume is the result of a research project supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation and comprises contributions by an extremely diverse and somewhat esoteric group of young Greek scholars, many affiliated with the Hellenic Open University and drawn from the fields of history, philosophy, economics, politics, and demography.</p> <p>The book is a very ambitious endeavor, creative in concept and earnest in execution. It is especially noteworthy that it is a Greek publication written for an international audience, a daring venture into a domain usually dominated by English-speaking academic communities. It has the usual problems of compilations in maintaining coherence of vision and narrative, as well as consistency in level of detail and focus. It is also replete with numerous long, tedious, and often excruciating explanations of research methodologies that divert rather than illuminate. Nevertheless, it provides new perspectives on topics extensively covered by others, including post–World War II debt and currency crises (chapters 8–10) and the impact of the Great Depression in the Weimar Republic from the vantage point of all three levels of government—national, state, and local (chapter 5). It also includes an original exploration of new topics such as both the benign and potentially exploitative impacts of international agency assistance in building national statistical expertise. Examples of such assistance covered in the book are the League of Nations Economic and Financial Section in Turkey (chapter 2), the League of Nations Economic and Financial Organization globally (chapter 4), and the International Agrarian Bureau in Eastern Europe (chapter 3). Another strength of this volume li","PeriodicalId":43810,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140828933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}