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Author Knight, Daniel M., author

Title History, time, and economic crisis in Central Greece / Daniel M. Knight ; foreword by Robert Layton
Edition First edition
Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 210 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: prosperity and crisis -- Ethnography on the plain of Thessaly -- Return of the Tsiflikades: crisis and land tenure 1881-1923 -- Hungry with the same famine -- Things to forget, things to remember: the Greek Civil War -- Public faces: food and protest in the current crisis -- Transforming the public sphere -- Status in crisis
Summary History, Time, and Economic Crisis in Central Greece explores how the inhabitants of a Greek town face the devastating consequences of the worst economic crisis in living memory. Knight examines how the inhabitants draw on the past to contextualize their experiences and build strength that will enable them to overcome their suffering
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-203) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Financial crises -- Greece -- Trikala -- History -- 21st century.
Poverty -- Greece -- Trikala -- History -- 21st century.
Recessions -- Greece -- Trikala -- History -- 21st century.
Working class -- Greece -- Trikala -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
SUBJECT Trikala (Greece) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84237485 -- Economic conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005736 -- 1974-
Trikala (Greece) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84237485 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2014045410
ISBN 1137486953 (electronic bk.)
9781137486950 (electronic bk.)