- Gebundene Ausgabe: 301 Seiten
- Verlag: Univ of North Carolina Pr (Februar 2009)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0807832472
- ISBN-13: 978-0807832479
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,6 x 15,5 x 2,8 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 653.367 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
The United States and the Making of Modern Greece
und über 1 Million weitere Bücher verfügbar für Amazon Kindle .
Erfahren Sie mehr
| |||||||||||||||
Produktinformation |
Mehr über den Autor
Entdecken Sie Bücher, lesen Sie über Autoren und mehr
› Besuchen Sie die Seite von James Edward Miller auf Amazon
› Besuchen Sie die Seite von James Edward Miller auf Amazon
Produktbeschreibungen
Synopsis
This book challenges received wisdom about American and Greek actions during the Cold War. Focusing on one of the most dramatic and controversial periods in modern Greek history and in the history of the Cold War, James Edward Miller provides the first study to employ a wide range of international archives - American, Greek, English, and French - together with foreign language publications to shed light on the role the United States played in Greece between the termination of its civil war in 1949 and Turkey's 1974 invasion of Cyprus.Miller demonstrates how U.S. officials sought, over a period of twenty-five years, to cultivate Greece as a strategic Cold War ally in order to check the spread of Soviet influence. The United States supported Greece's government through large-scale military aid, major investment of capital, and intermittent efforts to reform the political system. Miller examines the ways in which American and Greek officials cooperated in - and struggled over - the political future and the modernization of the country.Throughout, he evaluates the actions of the key figures involved, from George Papandreou and his son Andreas, to King Constantine, and from John Foster Dulles and Dwight D. Eisenhower to Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger. Miller's engaging study offers a nuanced and well-balanced assessment of events that still influence Mediterranean politics today.
In diesem Buch
(Mehr dazu)
Ausgewählte Seiten ansehen
Buchdeckel | Copyright | Inhaltsverzeichnis | Auszug | Stichwortverzeichnis
Buchdeckel | Copyright | Inhaltsverzeichnis | Auszug | Stichwortverzeichnis
Tags(Was ist das?)Bei einem Tag handelt es sich um ein Schlagwort, das zum Produkt passt.
Tags erleichtern allen Kunden die Suche und die Sortierung ihrer Lieblingsprodukte. |
Kundenrezensionen
Es gibt noch keine Kundenrezensionen auf Amazon.de
5 Sterne
4 Sterne
3 Sterne
2 Sterne
1 Sterne
Die hilfreichsten Kundenrezensionen auf Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
2 Rezensionen
3 von 4 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
US-Greek relations during troubled times
20. Juli 2010
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
Anyone willing to take up the toxic subject of US-Greek relations deserves admiration. This is especially so if the intent is to write not conspiratorial history, but to canvass the archives and try to reconstruct, as best as possible, how events transpired. In that task, James Edward Miller has succeeded, producing a fair book with ample documentation and support.
The book focuses on US-Greek relations after the Greek civil war in 1950 and until the fall of the military junta in 1974. Mr. Miller makes plain that he sees the history of US-Greek relations through the prism of Peter Sellers' "The Mouse that Roared," a "tale of the ways in which small states successfully manipulate great powers." His narrative tells of clashes, rivalries, and efforts by various actors - the monarchy or politicians - to solicit the support of the United States to their side. Often, those doing the soliciting were the same ones demonizing the United States for foreign "interference" in Greece's domestic affairs.
Mr. Miller has little patience for the "official" Greek view on US-Greek relations. He sees a Greek side that blames America for its own mistakes; that treats America as omnipotent; and that wishes for just enough "interference" to serve its ends. Miller writes thus: "The Greek political establishment and Greek public opinion were united on one issue, blaming their errors on the United States. For the next two decades [in the 1980s and 1990s], the United States served as a national piñata, trooped out left and right, on every possible occasion, to assuage feelings of humiliation and to avoid a national debate over the real causes of both the rise of the Colonels and the Cyprus disaster."
Mr. Miller makes these points but is no apologist for American policy. When that policy made no sense, he says so, and he is especially critical of how the Nixon Administration dealt with Greece. Usefully, he deconstructs American policy into its various components, distinguishing between the American embassy in Athens, the State Department, the CIA and, in later years, Henry Kissinger. Far from monolithic, American policy contained both trenchant and short-sighted analysis; idealism and realpolitik; and a tendency to react to facts on the ground as much as to create them.
In the end, it is that attention to detail and the fidelity to the archival record that gives the book its force. This is no flawless book, of course. There are times when it is short on details or where there is a discussion of a historical controversy not followed by resolution. And this is a text that could have benefited from more Turkish sources on the chapters on Cyprus. But of the many books and articles written on US-Greek relations, this book stands out.
The book focuses on US-Greek relations after the Greek civil war in 1950 and until the fall of the military junta in 1974. Mr. Miller makes plain that he sees the history of US-Greek relations through the prism of Peter Sellers' "The Mouse that Roared," a "tale of the ways in which small states successfully manipulate great powers." His narrative tells of clashes, rivalries, and efforts by various actors - the monarchy or politicians - to solicit the support of the United States to their side. Often, those doing the soliciting were the same ones demonizing the United States for foreign "interference" in Greece's domestic affairs.
Mr. Miller has little patience for the "official" Greek view on US-Greek relations. He sees a Greek side that blames America for its own mistakes; that treats America as omnipotent; and that wishes for just enough "interference" to serve its ends. Miller writes thus: "The Greek political establishment and Greek public opinion were united on one issue, blaming their errors on the United States. For the next two decades [in the 1980s and 1990s], the United States served as a national piñata, trooped out left and right, on every possible occasion, to assuage feelings of humiliation and to avoid a national debate over the real causes of both the rise of the Colonels and the Cyprus disaster."
Mr. Miller makes these points but is no apologist for American policy. When that policy made no sense, he says so, and he is especially critical of how the Nixon Administration dealt with Greece. Usefully, he deconstructs American policy into its various components, distinguishing between the American embassy in Athens, the State Department, the CIA and, in later years, Henry Kissinger. Far from monolithic, American policy contained both trenchant and short-sighted analysis; idealism and realpolitik; and a tendency to react to facts on the ground as much as to create them.
In the end, it is that attention to detail and the fidelity to the archival record that gives the book its force. This is no flawless book, of course. There are times when it is short on details or where there is a discussion of a historical controversy not followed by resolution. And this is a text that could have benefited from more Turkish sources on the chapters on Cyprus. But of the many books and articles written on US-Greek relations, this book stands out.
2 von 3 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Excellent book on recent Greek history
29. Juni 2009
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
This book is the best book I have read about modern Greek history. He has an excellent analysis of all the key players and makes very pertinent observations about Greek politics. James Edward Miller dares to make some sharp criticisms of some icons of Greek politics. A must read for students of this subject.
Waren diese Rezensionen hilfreich?
Wir wollen von Ihnen hören.
Kunden diskutieren
|
Das Forum zu diesem Produkt
Fragen stellen, Meinungen austauschen, Einblicke gewinnen Aktive Diskussionen in ähnlichen Foren
Kundendiskussionen durchsuchen
|
Ähnliche Foren
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lieblingslisten
Ähnliche Artikel finden
Anhand des Sachgebietes nach ähnlichen Produkten suchen:
Ihr Kommentar
Möchten Sie die Produktinformationen aktualisieren oder Feedback zu den Produktabbildungen geben?
|
