AP/HIST 3355 6.00

MODERN GREECE

This course examines the main political, economic and social events that shaped the history of Modern Greece. The journey into Modern Greek History begins in the sixteenth and seventeenth century and explores the integration of disparate regions under Ottoman and Venetian rule into an independent, prosperous and regionally strong nation-state. Topics to be examined include: the Ottoman and Venetian forms of rule, the Greek Enlightenment, the war of independence, economic and social change in the nineteenth century; urbanization, political patronage and the gradual incorporation of Greek economy and society to the European one; the expansion of Greek territory and the struggle with Turkey; migration, war and occupation; the Civil War (1946-1949) and the post-civil war state; industrialization, emigration and the Greek Diaspora; the 1967-1974 dictatorship and finally the inclusion of Greece to the ongoing project of European integration, are among the main themes examined in the course. The course will introduce you to the history as well as the historiography of Modern Greece.