The full catastrophe :
by Angelos, James
Published by : Crown Publishers (New York) Physical details: 294 pages map ; 25 cm ISBN:9780385346481 (hardback); 0385346484 (hardback); 9780385346481.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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| 900 - 999 | 949.5076 Ang (Browse shelf) | Available | Darden Trust | 102674 |
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| 949.5 Ven Greece in Her True Light | 949.502 Oxf The Oxford history of Byzantium | 949.503 Phi The Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople | 949.5076 Ang The full catastrophe : | 949.6 Ger The Balkan wars : | 949.6 Maz The Balkans : | 949.61 Jac Constantinople |
Includes index.
Island of the blind -- Off the books -- The resistance -- Murder in the Civil Service -- The apostate -- Europe's hopefuls -- The new Spartans.
"A transporting, good-humored, and revealing account of Greece's dire troubles, reported from the mountain villages, idyllic islands, and hardscrabble streets that define the country today In recent years, small Greece, often associated with ancient philosophers and marble ruins, whitewashed villages and cerulean seas, has been at the center of a debt crisis that has sown economic and social ruin, spurred panic in international markets, and tested Europe's decades-old project of forging a closer union. In The Full Catastrophe, James Angelos makes sense of contrasting images of Greece, a nation both romanticized for its classical past and castigated for its dysfunctional present. With vivid character-driven narratives and engaging reporting that offers an immersive sense of place, he brings to life some of the causes of the country's financial collapse, and examines the changes, some hopeful and others deeply worrisome, emerging in its aftermath. A small rebellion against tax authorities breaks out on a normally serene Aegean island. A mayor from a bucolic, northern Greek village is gunned down by the municipal treasurer. An aging, leftist hero of the Second World War fights to win compensation from Germany for the wartime occupation. A once marginal group of neo-Nazis rises to political prominence out of a ramshackle Athens neighborhood. The Full Catastrophe goes beyond the transient coverage in the daily headlines to deliver an enduring and absorbing portrait of modern Greece"--