Greece: Later Greece

For modern Greece, seeSee E. O'Ballance, The Greek Civil War, 1944–49 (1966); G. Finlay, A History of Greece (7 vol., 1877; repr. 1970); A. G. Papandreou, Democracy at Gunpoint (1970); D. Dakin, The Unification of Greece: 1770–1923 (1972); D. Eudes, The Kapetanios, Partisans and Civil War in Greece, 1943–1949 (tr., 1972); A. F. Freris, The Greek Economy in the Twentieth Century (1986); T. Bahcheli, Greek-Turkish Relations Since 1955 (1988); R. Clogg, A Short History of Modern Greece (1988); Y. A. Kourvetaris and B. A. Dobratz, A Profile of Modern Greece (1988); J. V. Kofas, Intervention and Underdevelopment: Greece During the Cold War (1989); T. Boatswain and C. Nicolson, A Traveller's History of Greece (1990).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• The New Greece
• Military Rule
• Constitutional Government
• World War II and Civil War
• The Balkan Wars to the 1930s
• The Struggle for Independence
• Medieval Greece to Ottoman RuleMedieval and Modern Greece
• Ancient Greece
• Government
• Economy
• Land and People
• Later Greece

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