Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe
| Author | : Renée Hirschon |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| ISBN-10 | : 1571817301 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9781571817303 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (303 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe by : Renée Hirschon
Download or read book Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe written by Renée Hirschon and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1923, after war between Greece and Turkey, 350,000 Muslims were expelled from Greece and over a million Orthodox Christians entered the country. This ethnography of Kokkinia, an urban quarter in Piraeus, reveals that its inhabitants, 50 years after settlement, had a marked sense of identity separate from that of other Greeks. First published in 1989 by Oxford University Press, New York, this paperback edition contains a new preface by the author and a new foreword. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
