Nikos Christofis (επιμ.)
New York/Oxford: Berghahn, 2025 [350 p., 3 ills., index. ISBN 978-1-80539-986-5, eISBN 978-1-80539-987-2 eBook]
Type: New Publications

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.

 

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 Annales in 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

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/9781805399865