At the Crossroads of Six Empires

A History of Modern and Contemporary Greece, 17502015

A definitive history of modern Greece, now available in English for the first time.

Foreword by Katerina Sakellaropoulou, former president of Greece.

A definitive history of modern Greece, now available in English for the first time.

In this capstone achievement of a lifetimes scholarship, George B. Dertilis traces the making of modern Greece, from the last years of Ottoman rule and the Revolution of 1821 to the debt crisis of the 2010s.

Rather than simply narrating events, Dertilis asks why they happened: how an improvised, often poor state won the consent of its citizens; absorbed war, occupation, civil conflict and mass displacement; and was in turn resisted, reinvented and remade by them. He moves between the great forces of society and economy and the accounts of the resilient individuals that shaped a