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  • The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans

    Context and Consequences

    Series series Turning Points
    The fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453 marked the end of a thousand years of the Christian Roman Empire. Thereafter, world civilisation began a process of radical change. The West came to identify itself as Europe; the Russians were set on the path of autocracy; the Ottomans were transformed into a world power while the Greeks were left exiles in their own land. The loss of ... Leer más

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    The Battle for the West

    An account of the ancient battle between Persia and the alliance of Greek city-states, including the legendary "300 Spartans."In 480 BCE, Persian king Xerxes led a massive invasion of Greece. A critical point in this invasion was the battle for the pass at Thermopylae—"Hot Gates" in Greek. Xerxes had amassed one of the largest armies yet known to man, while Leonidas's troops, a group of united ... Leer más

    $193 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Macedonia and the Macedonians

    A History

    de Andrew Rossos ...
    Series series Studies of Nationalities
    Throughout history, every power that has aspired to dominate the Balkans, a crucial crossroads between Europe, Asia, and Africa, has sought to control Macedonia. But although Macedonia has figured prominently in history, its name was largely absent from the historical stage, representing only a disputed territory of indeterminate boundaries, until the nineteenth century. Successive invaders— Roman ... Leer más

    $134 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Salonica, City of Ghosts

    Christians, Muslims and Jews (Text Only)

    de Mark Mazower ...
    Please note that this edition does not include illustrations.The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation.Salonica is the point where the wonders and horrors of the Orient and Europe have met over the centuries.Written with a Pepysian sense of ... Leer más

    $164 MXN

  • Greece

    A Short History of a Long Story, 7,000 BCE to the Present

    Greece: A Short History of a Long Story presents a comprehensive overview of the history of Greece by exploring the continuity of Greek culture from its Neolithic origins to the modern era.Tells the story of Greece through individual personalities that inhabited various periods in the lengthy sweep of Greek historyUses an approach based on recent research that includes DNA analysis and analyses of ... Leer más

    $1,086 MXN

  • Orthokostá

    A Novel

    Series Libro 225 - The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    First published in 1994 to a storm of controversy, Thanassis Valtinos’s probing novel Orthokostá defied standard interpretations of the Greek Civil War. Through the documentary-style testimonies of multiple narrators, among them the previously unheard voices of right-wing collaborationists, Valtinos provides a powerful, nuanced interpretation of events during the later years of Nazi occupation and ... Leer más

    $336 MXN

  • Stephanos Pesmazoglou, book review for Artemis Cooper's "Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure"

    This book is a review, by Stephanos Pesmazoglou, on Artemis Cooper's biography of Patrick Leigh Fermor, who epitomised the double love affair with England and Greece for the whole period since the late 1930s from the late 1930s until his death in 2011. Additional suspense is provided by his leading the small group that captured General Kreipe, the newly arrived commander of German troops on Crete, ... Leer más

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  • House Ascendant

    Odysseus & His Family in the Early Thirteenth Century Bc.

    House Ascendantpresents the comings-of-age of the epic hero and his best friend by homeland Greece; theyre both famous from The Odyssey by Homer, although the book assumes our readers have not the least knowledge of them. So, accordingly, from Odysseus birth while under the care of his mother Anticleia our volume tells settings and tales about Odysseus as a boy. He meets Mentor while theyre both ... Leer más

    $150 MXN

  • That Greece Might Still Be Free

    The Philhellenes in the War of Independence

    When in 1821, the Greeks rose in violent revolution against the rule of the Ottoman Turks, waves of sympathy spread across Western Europe and the United States. More than a thousand volunteers set out to fight for the cause. The Philhellenes, whether they set out to recreate the Athens of Pericles, start a new crusade, or make money out of a war, all felt that Greece had unique claim on the ... Leer más

    $149 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Three Golden Apples

    The story is based on the myth of the golden apples, which are a central element in the tale of the Trojan War. In Hawthorne’s version, the narrative focuses on the three golden apples given by the goddess Eris to create discord among the gods. These apples are meant to be awarded to the fairest goddess, which leads to a rivalry between Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite. The story of the apples ... Leer más

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  • Greece in Bible History

    & Alexander The Great

    Is the facts of the bible trustworthy? The latest work by Jared William Carter shows that the bible is trustworthy and its writers were inspired by Greece in Bible History and the accurate perdiction of Alexander the Great's death. ... Leer más

    $34 MXN

  • Jewish Salonica

    Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece

    de Devin E. Naar ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    Touted as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans," the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the city's incorporation into Greece in 1912 provoked a major upheaval that compelled Salonica's Jews to reimagine their community and status as citizens of a nation-state. Jewish Salonica is ... Leer más

    $397 MXN