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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 13 books in this booklist
£3.50 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781904491422 | ISBN 10: 1904491421
Of all the anarchist movements of 21st century Europe, Greece is perhaps the most explosive. From 19th century beginnings, to facing down the Junta’s tanks in 1973, to the street war of Greece’s 2010s economic crisis, this short history cha ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781849044042 | ISBN 10: 184904404x
Few countries experienced the period of turbulence surrounding the global financial crisis as intensely as Greece. The country topped the global news agenda as images of mass protests in Athens jostled for space with reports of torturous negotiations ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781583676257 | ISBN 10: 1583676252
Utterly corrupt corporate and government elites bankrupted Greece twice over. First, by profligate deficit spending benefitting only themselves; second, by agreeing to an IMF “bailout” of the Greek economy, devastating ordinary Greek citizens who ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846276248 | ISBN 10: 1846276241
Since the revelation of its massive hidden deficit in late 2009, Greece has been at the centre of the world's attention. Observers around the globe have watched with morbid fascination as the country has repeatedly flirted with political and financia ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908058249 | ISBN 10: 1908058242
"the gouged marble, the graffiti scrawls, the statue standing like something outraged remind you, you who yearned to live beyond this, that hope marked you too."(From 'This City', by Adrianne Kalfopoulou) Futures features some of the most darin ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745336862 | ISBN 10: 0745336868
The worlds eyes are on Greece. Elected in January 2015 under the leadership of Alexis Tsipras, the radical Syriza party sought to challenge the European economic status-quo and secure a better future for the Greek people. The fierce confrontation wi ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781783606108 | ISBN 10: 178360610x
In this remarkable and provocative book, Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis explodes the myth that financialisation, ineffectual regulation of banks, greed and globalisation were the root causes of both the Eurozone crisis and the global economi ... more
View book details£15.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780996059 | ISBN 10: 1780996055
In periods of intense crisis the pressing need to take sides comes to the surface and trumps neutrality. The claim to objectivity, always a little problematic, can no longer be sustained, and becomes itself a ground of confrontation as the conflicts ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780998244 | ISBN 10: 1780998244
Greece: What is to be Done? analyzes the Greek debt crisis, the multilateral austerity countermeasures, and offers alternatives to the socioeconomic destruction of Greece and the Eurozone. ... more
View book details£10.00 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780983059714 | ISBN 10: 0983059713
How does a revolt come about and what does it leave behind? What impact does it have on those who participate in it and those who simply watch it? Is the Greek revolt of December 2008 confined to the shores of the Mediterranean, or are there lessons ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846271502 | ISBN 10: 1846271509
After spending his childhood and school years in Albania, imagining that the mini-skirts and quiz-shows of Italian state TV were the reality of life in the West, and fantasizing accordingly about living on the other side of the border, the death of H ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906021597 | ISBN 10: 1906021597
With everything from Achilles heel to Pythagoras theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own. Conside ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781845116927 | ISBN 10: 1845116925
Crete, the 'Great Island' of Greece, has been home to such figures as the legendary King Minos, El Greco and Nikos Kazantzakis. In myth it is associated with Daedelus and Icarus and the story of Theseus and the Minotaur. Today it is one of the most p ... more
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