xii, 242 pages : maps ; 22 cm.

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What is this book about? -- Why Greece now? -- What is the weight of ancient Greece on the present? -- What have Greeks thought about themselves? -- In what sense is Greece a pioneer? -- What is Greece's lesser-known record of achievements? -- How to reconcile disasters and achievements? -- How did...

How did democracy come to Greece? -- How did the new democratic institutions operate? -- How did Greece become a nation of small farmers? -- Was Greece a failed state? -- What was the state of the economy? -- What led to successive defaults? -- How did Greece build an infrastructure? -- How did Gree...

How did the Civil War restart and end? -- What was the legacy of the Civil War? -- What was the nature of the postwar political order? -- What was the state of Greece in the aftermath of the Civil War? -- How did Greece take off? -- What caused the 1967 military coup? -- What was the military regime...

What were some of the effects of maladministration? -- What was the effect of populism on social norms and behavior? -- How did PASOK shape the economy? -- How did economic stagnation give way to economic boom? -- How did Greece go from economic boom to bust? -- What triggered the crisis? -- What we...