Title Thessaloniki, a city in transition, 1912-2012 / edited by Dimitris Keridis and John Brady Kiesling

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 390 pages) Series Routledge studies in modern European history Routledge studies in modern European history. Summary "This book shares the conclusions of a remarkable conference marking the centennial of Thessaloniki's incorporation in the Greek state in 1912. Like its Roman and Byzantine predecessors, Ottoman Salonica was the metropolis of a huge, multi-ethnic Balkan hinterland, a center of modernization/westernization, and the de facto capital of Sephardic Judaism. The powerful attraction it exerted on competing local nationalisms, including the Young Turks, gave it a paradigmatic role in the transition from imperial to national rule in southeastern Europe. Twenty-three articles cover the multicultural physiognomy of a "Levantine" city. They describe the mechanisms for cultivating national consciousness (including education, journalism, the arts, archaeology, and urban planning), the relationship between national identity, religious identity, and an evolving socialist labor movement, anti-Semitism, and the practical issues of governing and assimilating diverse non-Greek populations after Greece's military victory in 1912. Analysis of this transformation extends chronologically through the arrival of Greek refugees from Turkey and the Black Sea in 1923, the Holocaust, the Greek civil war, and the new waves of migration after 1990. These processes are analyzed on multiple levels, including civil administration, land use planning, and the treatment of Thessaloniki's historic monuments. This work underscores the importance of cities and their local histories in shaping the key national narratives that drove development in southeastern Europe. Those lessons are highly relevant today, as Europe reacts to renewed migratory pressures and the rise of new nationalist movements, and draws lessons, valid or otherwise, from the nation-building experiments of the previous century"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Dimitris Keridis is Professor of International Relations at the Panteion University in Athens, Greece, and has been a member of the Greek Parliament since 2019. He has written widely on foreign policy, particularly on the Balkans and on modern Greek history. John Brady Kiesling is an archaeologist and former U.S. diplomat, whose work includes Greek Urban Warriors (2014), Diplomacy Lessons (2007), the ToposText application, and various edited works on Greek history Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis Group, viewed April 23, 2020) Subject HISTORY -- General. HISTORY -- Europe -- Greece (see also Ancient -- Greece) Ethnic relations SUBJECT Thessalonikē (Greece) -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses Thessalonikē (Greece) -- History -- 21st century -- Congresses Thessalonikē (Greece) -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses Subject Greece -- Thessalonikē Genre/Form Electronic books proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings History Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Form Electronic book Author Keridis, Dimitris, editor. Kiesling, John Brady, 1957- editor. Thessaloniki, a city in transition, 1912-2012 (2012 : Thessalonikē (Greece)) LC no. 2019053651 ISBN 9780429201561 0429201567 9780429517099 0429517092 9780429513664 0429513666 9780429510236 0429510233

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