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Eleftherios Venizelos : the trials of statesmanship / edited by Paschalis M. Kitromilides.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kitromilides, Paschalis M., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Venizelos, Eleutherios, 1864-1936.
- Venizelos, Eleutherios.
- Prime ministers--Greece--Biography.
- Prime ministers.
- Greece--Politics and government--20th century.
- Greece.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 403 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece, 1910-1920 and 1928-1932, could be considered from many points of view the creator of contemporary Greece and one of the main actors in European diplomacy in the period 1910-1935. Yet the last book-length study discussing the man, his politics and his broader role in twentieth-century history has appeared in English more than fifty years ago. The aspiration of the present book is to fill this lacuna by bringing together the concerted research effort of twelve experts on Greek history and politics. The book draws on considerable new research that has appeared in Greek in the last quarter century, but does not confine the treatment of the subject in a purely Greek or even Balkan context. The entire project is oriented toward placing the study of Venizelos' leadership in the broad setting of twentieth-century politics and diplomacy. The complex and often dramatic trajectory of Venizelos' career from Cretan rebel to an admired European statesman is chartered out in a sequence of chapters that survey his meteoric rise and great achievements in Greek and European politics in the early decades of the twentieth century, amidst violent passions and tragic conflicts. Five further essays appraise in depth some critical aspects of his policies, while a final chapter offers some glimpses into a great statesman's personal and intellectual world. The book is based on extensive scholarship but it is eminently readable and it should appeal to all those interested in twentieth-century history, politics and biography, offering a vivid sense of the hopes and tragedies of Greek and European history in the age of the Great War and of the interwar crisis.
- Contents:
- Century of revolutions / Leonidas Kallivretakis
- Venizelos' early life and political career in Crete, 1864-1910 / A. Lilly Macrakis
- Venizelos' advent in Greek politics, 1909-12 / Helen Gardikas-Katsiadakis
- Protagonist in politics, 1912-20 / Thanos Veremis and Helen Gardikas-Katsiadakis
- Venizelos' diplomacy, 1910-23 / Michael Llewellyn Smith
- Reconstructing Greece as a European state / Ioannis D. Stefanidis
- Last years, 1933-6 / Ioannis S. Koliopoulos
- Experiment of inclusive constitutionalism, 1909-32 / Ioannis Tassopoulos
- Venizelos and civil-military relations / Thonos Veremis
- Venizelos and economic policy / Christine Agriantoni
- Moderisation and reaction in Greek education during the Venizelos era / Alexis Dimaras
- Venizelos and church-state relations / Andreas Nanakis
- Venizelos' intellectual projects and cultural interest / Paschalis M. Kitromilides.
- Notes:
- At head of title: Institute for Neohellenic Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-7126-9
- 1-280-53849-X
- 9786610538492
- 0-7486-2700-6
- OCLC:
- 475991606
- Publisher Number:
- 9780748624782
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