Greece Three Hundred Years
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Greece was born out of the bloody conflict between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire. In the approximately 300 years since 1718, Greece has built a modern nation-state on the ruins of a vanished civilization. After Roderick Beaton tells the story of the birth of the Greek nation-state at the beginning, he directly introduces the plot of the story into modern times and analyzes the grudges and resentments between Greece and other EU member states after the economic crisis. By examining in detail how Greeks understood their own shared identity, Beaton reveals centuries of Greek anxieties and insecurities about self-understanding. This is not only the story of the building of the Greek nation-state, but more fundamentally, the story of the collective identity that went hand in hand with the building of the nation-state; not only the history of major events and high politics, but also the history of culture, art, people and ideas. Beaton sees modern Greece as a living entity, a living entity, encouraging us to re-examine a people and history whose glorious past we have so long commemorated. The country and its people were struggling to build their future as part of the modern West. As an important country that affects the situation in Europe and a great country in the history of world civilization, Greece, between the East and the West, has too many mysteries, which this book will reveal one by one.
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