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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Modern Greece"”.
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Elites and society in modern Greece: cabinet circulation and systemic change (1946-1976)
… the “mimesis” effect, the Greek elite became a modernizing force as the middle class began to imitate elite patterns of education, consumption and overall behavior. This process of emulation has contributed to the narrowing of the cultural gap that separated the elite from the masses. On the …
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Fire, Poison, and Black Tears : Metaphors of Emotion in Rebétiko
… Rebétiko is a major popular-music style of modern Greece, consisting mostly of melancholic songs full of sorrow, disappointment, and misfortune, as well as passion and romance, but also of cheerful songs of revelry and a carefree attitude to life. Rebétiko as a music style developed in the …
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The Benaki Museum in Interwar Greece: Constructing Greek Art & the Greek Nation After the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
… of the Benaki Museum, founded in Athens, Greece in 1931, which exhibited a wide variety of Ottoman art and material culture. The museum, which continues to be a pre-eminent institution in Greece today, was largely the work of the Greek collector and founder Antonis Benakis (1873 – 1954) …
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Resurrecting the Past, Constructing the Future: A Historical Investigation on the Formation of a Greek National Identity in Schools, 1834-1913
… and analyzes how schooling and education in Greece between 1834 and 1913 sought to shape a Greek national identity. The goal of this project is to present a historical analysis, that has thus far been absent from scholarship on the subject, and to convey how the adoption of a common national …