The Usable Past · Greek Metahistories by Brown, K.S. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Table of Figures Foreword - Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Acknowledgments 1 - The Cupboard of the Yesterdays? Critical Perspectives on the Usable Past

Introduction Projects: The Nation and Its Fragments Fractures: Narratives in Question Conversations: Modernity and Beyond Coda: Stories We Live By Notes References

I Projects: The State in Action

2 - Monumental Visions: The Past in Metaxas’ Weltanschauung

I II III IV V Notes References

Introduction Multiple Encodings School Textbooks in Modern Greek Society: Public Debates and Conditions of Production Antiquity and History in Three Textbooks Schoolbooks as Weapons: National Pedagogy and School Textbooks Discussion and Conclusion: Dreaming the Topos of Hellenism in School Textbooks Notes References

Data and Methodology Between the Past and the Present Marking National Space Currency Stamps in Wider Context Conclusion Notes References

II Fractures: Resisting the National Narrative

5 - The Macedonian Question in the 1920s and the Politics of History

Appropriating Greek Macedonia Against Greek Nationalist Narratives: Demography Against Greek Nationalist Narratives: Contingency External Threats after World War I: Bulgaria and Yugoslavia How Greek Macedonia Stayed Greek The Resilience of Nationalist Narratives Critical History: Limits, Dilemmas, Hopes Notes References

6 - Recollecting Difference: Archive-Marxists and Old Calendarists in an Exile Community

Introduction Background Delegitimizing Political Dissent The Creation of Communes The Social Organization of Prison and Exile Exile on Anafi Archive-Marxists (Archeo-Marxists) Old Calendarists Conclusion References

7 - The Ethnoarchaeology of a “Passive” Ethnicity: The Arvanites of Central Greece

A Contrasting Narrative of Ethnicity Conclusion Acknowledgments References

III Conversations: From Past to Present

Introduction Personal Reflections Recent Studies on Memory Dimitris Pikionis and Sedad Hakki Eldem: Toward a Comparative Approach The Memory of Place Epilogue Acknowledgments References

9 - Spaces in Tense: History, Contingency, and Place in a Cretan City

A Contested Terrain Furnishing Categories Conclusion Notes References

Occam’s Razor Nicks the Hidden Hand Fragmenting Wholes: Conspiracy Therapy Conspiracy or Hermeneutics? Tracking the Truth in Greece Conclusion Notes References

11 - Afterword Index About the Contributors