History and Historiography in Greece: Recent Trends
Edited by Nikos Christofis
350 pages, 3 ills., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80539-986-5 Hb / Published (May 2025)
An updated guide to Greek historiography was long overdue. In this comprehensive and temporally wide-ranging reassessment, History and Historiography in Greece examines the evolution of Greek historical scholarship by reviewing the ideas, methods, and schools of history shaping the field. From how these developments correspond with international trends, to their rate of development alongside global shifts in scholarship, this volume identifies not only the ideological limitations shaping Greek academia, but also the innovations that are breaking new ground. In doing so, the contributors illuminate how those developments yield new lessons for existing conceptual frameworks within the fields of labor, gender, diaspora studies, and more.
Nikos Christofis is Assistant Professor at the Department of Language and Intercultural Studies, at the University of Thessaly. He holds additional positions as an adjunct lecturer at the Hellenic Open University and an affiliate researcher at the Netherlands Institute at Athens (NIA). He has published extensively in Greek, English, Turkish, Chinese, and Spanish, including over seventy articles and book chapters, eleven edited books, and a monograph. He is the chief editor of the series Mediterranean Politics for Transnational Press and New Directions in Turkish Studies for Berghahn Books.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: History and Historiography in Greece: From the Establishment of the Greek State to the Present Day
Nikos Christofis
Chapter 1. Ancient History in Modern Greece: Traditions and Trends
Aggelos Chaniotis
Chapter 2. Byzantine History: State of the Field and Greek Perspectives
Yiannis Stouraitis
Chapter 3. The National Greek Historiography (Twentieth-Twenty-First Century)
Dimitris Stamatopoulos
Chapter 4. The Annalesin the Greek Historical Studies: An Attempt at Historicization
Eleftheria Zei
Chapter 5. The Rise and Fall of Greek Marxist Historiography
Christos Hadziiossif
Chapter 6. Economic History: Emergence and Institutionalization of a Historiographic Field
Socrates Petmezas
Chapter 7. From the History of the Labor Movement to the History of Labor: The Gradual Shaping of the Discipline in Greece
Leda Papastefanaki
Chapter 8. Gender History in Greece
Androniki Dialeti, Eleni Fournaraki, and Yannis Yannitsiotis
Chapter 9. Oral History in Greece: Uncovering the Hidden Voices of History
Riki van Boeschoten and Antonis Antoniou
Chapter 10. Biography, Memory, Historiography
Henriette Rika Benveniste
Chapter 11. Public History in Greece
Aimilia (Emilia) Salvanou
Chapter 12. Postmodernism in Greek Historiography
Kimonas Markatos
Chapter 13. The Challenge of Ottoman Studies in Greece
Elias Kolovos
Chapter 14. Comparative and Transnational History in Greece
Nikos Christofis
Afterword: Why Might Greek Historiography Matter?
Αntonis Liakos
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