Book description
Our perception of Greece conjures up many potent images: an ancient
civilization brought alive by fable, hillsides dotted with sunbaked
villages, lazy beaches lapped by crystal blue waters, the warmth and
humour of its people. Yet if we look behind the picture-postcard
imagery, the painful contradictions of the country begin to emerge.
James Pettifer's classic text on Greece, now revised and updated with
extensive new material, argues that it is vital to understand this
country's present by looking at the far-reaching effects of its troubled
past. He surveys the roots of Greek social, economic and political
realities with intelligence and convincing clarity.
Professor James Pettifer is a member of the Oxford University History
Faculty and St Cross College. He is a participant in the work of other
academic institutions, principally the Historisches Seminar,
Osteuropaische Geschichtein Zurich University,Switzerland.
He was born in Hereford, UK in 1949 and educated at Kings School
Worcester, Hertford College Oxford and the Free University of West
Berlin. He has been a senior member of St Antony's College Oxford and
Visiting Professor at the Institute of Balkan Studies, Thessalonica
and was a Honorary Fellow of the Department of Greek and Byzantine
Studies, Birmingham University, UK.
From 2002 to 2006 he was a Visiting Professor in the State
University in Tetovo,FYROM/Republic of Macedonia. In 2007 he was
Stanley. J.Seeger Research Fellow at Princeton University, New Jersey,
USA. From 2000 until its abolition in 2010 he also worked in the
Conflict Studies Research Centre (RAB)of the Defence Academy of the
UK. He is the author of a number of well known books on the Balkans
and regional politics and history.
