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Δημοσίευσα μια παρουσίαση του βιβλίου αυτού στο περιοδικό The Books' Journal. Βρίσκεται στο πεδίο... more Δημοσίευσα μια παρουσίαση του βιβλίου αυτού στο περιοδικό The Books' Journal. Βρίσκεται στο πεδίο Miscellanea Minora.

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Reviews (of the Greek edition of my book) by Dimitris Livanios

Book review of the Greek edition of my book

articles and book-chapters by Dimitris Livanios

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Book review of the Greek edition of my book

The main aim of this essay is to offer a critical survey of the development of Greek collective i... more The main aim of this essay is to offer a critical survey of the development of Greek collective identities, between 1453 and 1913. That period witnessed dramatic transformations, and the arrival of a modernising and Westernising wave, which crashed onto the Greek shores in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The ensuing clash between Western and modern ideas of nationalism on the one hand, and timehonoured local mentalities nurtured by Orthodoxy and the Ottoman millet system, on the other, was intense. This paper attempts to chart some salient aspects of that struggle, to discuss the evolution of concepts and words, such as "Hellene" [OEÏÏËÓ·˜], "Hellenism" [∂ÏÏËÓÈÛÌfi˜], "Roman" [ƒˆÌÈfi˜] and "Romiosyne" [ƒˆÌÈÔÛ ‡ÓË], and to place them within their changing historical context.

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Athens Review Of Books (vol 143), 2022

Η επισήμανση ότι ο ιστορικός επιλέγει τα θέματά του με βάση και τις προσωπικές του ευαισθησίες εί... more Η επισήμανση ότι ο ιστορικός επιλέγει τα θέματά του με βάση και τις προσωπικές του ευαισθησίες είναι, βέβαια, κοινότοπη, όσο και ακριβής. Οι ιστοριογραφικές επιλογές του Κολιόπουλου δεν αποτελούν εξαίρεση: το βιβλίο του για τη ληστεία, για παράδειγμα, έχει τις «καταβολές» του στις ιστορίες που άκουγε στο γενέθλιο τόπο του, την ορεινή Δυτική Μακεδονία, και στο «ακαταμάχητο κάλεσμα της σύγχρονης ελληνικής 'κλεφτουριάς'». 1 Αν και σε υστερότερο έργο του προσυπέγραψε την άποψη του Λουκιανού, που ήθελε τον ιστορικό «άπολι», δηλαδή χωρίς πατρίδα, αυτό οφειλόταν μάλλον στο μέλημά του να τονίσει ότι η ιστορική επιστήμη θα πρέπει να είναι «αστράτευτη» παρά στην υποβάθμιση του ρόλου των προσωπικών βιωμάτων. 2 Κατά συνέπεια, η ενασχόλησή του με τις ταραγμένες ιστορικές διαδρομές της γενέτειράς του κατά τη δεκαετία του 1940 είναι απολύτως εύλογη. Η «κινητήρια συγκίνηση» για την έρευνα προήλθε από τη μικροϊστορία της οικογενείας του, που οδήγησε τον πατέρα του στον Εθνικό Στρατό, τον νεότερο αδελφό του πατέρα του στον Δημοκρατικό, και τον ίδιο σε παρακείμενο χωριό, υπό «τον βόμβο των αεροπλάνων και τον κρότο των οβίδων». Ωστόσο, η χρονικότητα της ενασχόλησης αυτής, η δεκαετία του 1990, επιβλήθηκε από τις τότε συνθήκες, καθώς την περίοδο αυτή το Μακεδονικό επανήλθε με σφοδρότητα στο προσκήνιο, προκαλώντας ισχυρότατες αναταράξεις. Σε μια συγκυρία που δεν ευνοούσε τις ψύχραιμες προσεγγίσεις, ο Κολιόπουλος εξέδωσε δύο τόμους με τον τίτλο Λεηλασία

Η παρουσίαση αυτή δημοσιεύτηκε στο περιοδικό The Books' Journal (τχ Μαϊου, 2022)

This volume contains the proceedings of a conference, of which I was member of the scientific com... more This volume contains the proceedings of a conference, of which I was member of the scientific committee.

Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 2009

and is able to engage freely in sexual activity” (p. 70); and that “the farmers of Argolida perce... more and is able to engage freely in sexual activity” (p. 70); and that “the farmers of Argolida perceive themselves to be involved in a class struggle with a European bourgeoisie” (p. 175). The reader is not given any basis upon which to judge such statements; readers either have to agree or disagree. Lawrence has covered the relevant literature reasonably well with some notable exceptions, such as Susan Buck Sutton’s edited collection, Contingent Countryside: Settlement, Economy, and Land Use in the Southern Argolid since 1700 (Stanford University Press 2000). Also, data in a couple of sections of the book do not reflect the accession of ten new member states to the EU in 2004. The addition of these new members fundamentally alters the legal status of many (mainly Eastern European) potential agricultural workers who might move to the Argolid, newcomers who may or may not displace the majority Albanian illegal migrants. Despite these limitations, Lawrence provides valuable documentation of the experience of illegal migrants in the Argolid, adding to the growing literature on the rapidly changing phenomenon of migration across Europe.

The Historical Review/La Revue Historique, 2006

Tom Gallagher. Outcast Europe, The Balkans, 1789-1989. From the Ottomans to Milosevic. London and... more Tom Gallagher. Outcast Europe, The Balkans, 1789-1989. From the Ottomans to Milosevic. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. xvii, 314 pp. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $90.00, cloth.The dissolution of Yugoslavia and the horrors that followed have led to a stream of recent publications about the Balkans. Much writing focuses on the role of violence in the region, and the relations of the Balkans with "Europe." Predictably, conflicting interpretations emerge: for politicians and many journalists, the region is immersed in "ancient hatreds," more or less obscure and incomprehensible. The "Balkanites" are doomed to butcher one another with relish, for their tradition glorifies violence and their history is punctuated by warfare and ethnic friction. Despite their claims, they are neither Europeans, nor have they ever been accepted as such. Facing such assertions, scholars and journalists with scholarly credentials have frequently been obliged to push the swinging pendulum to the other side: the region is definitely part of Europe, they conclude. And the main culprit is Europe itself. Often behaving like bulls in the Balkan china-shop, the European powers have exploited the peninsula, destabilized it, and, ultimately abandoned it to languish in the quagmire their policies created.Outcast Europe broadly supports this school of thought. According to its back cover "[t]he chief argument... is that the proximity of the Balkans to the great powers is the main reason for instability and decline." This is the "first book," we are told, "to argue systematically that many of the Balkan's gravest problems are external in origin." Setting aside this overstatement about primogeniture (Misha Glenny's book on the Balkans, to cite but one example, laboured a similar point in 1999) the Great Powers have a lot to answer for: they "have behaved in a predatory or neglectful way towards the region," which in many instances became "a playground for the powers to pursue their rivalries;" European "rulers and their diplomatic advisers have often become prisoners of the unfortunate stereotypes which the region has acquired," and have often demonstrated "stunning lack of foresight;" last, but by no means least, the powers are castigated for their "lethargy," "prejudices" and "cynicism."To illustrate these points Gallagher surveys the history of the Balkans from the French Revolution to the rise of Slobodan Milosevic. Reflecting the author's preoccupation with external involvement, the book is uneven in its coverage and concentrates mainly on foreign affairs, and on the twentieth century. The period from 1789 to 1914 receives as much treatment as the 1940s, and when the focus shifts to domestic developments there are many gaps: the Serbian uprising of 1804, for example, is not discussed, and the Bulgarian national movement is touched upon only in connection with Pan-Slav agitation and the "Bulgarian Horrors. …

Times Literary Supplement Tls, 2002

Canadian Slavonic Papers, Sep 1, 2003

Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Feb 14, 2014

The Macedonian Question, 2008

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2002

Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 2008

Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2003

South European Society and Politics, 2012

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