The Usable Past

Brown, Keith,

The Usable Past : Greek metahistories / Keith S Brown - New York . : Lexington Books, ©2003. - xiv, 239p. 24cm. - Greek studies. .

The cupboard of the yesterdays? Critical perspectives on the usable past / K.S. Brown and Yannis Hamilakis --
Monumental visions: the past in Metaxas' Weltanschauung / Philip Carabott --
"Learn history!" antiquity, national narrative, and history in Greek educational textbooks / Yannis Hamilakis --
The politics of currency: stamps, coins, banknotes, and the circulation of modern Greek tradition / Basil C. Gounaris --
The Macedonian question in the 1920s and the politics of history / Patrick Finney --
Recollecting difference: archive-Marxists and old Calendarists in an exile community / Margaret E. Kenna --
The ethnoarchaeology of a "passive" ethnicity: the Arvanites of central Greece / John Bintliff --
Dimitria Pikionis and Sedad Eldem: parallel reflections of vernacular and national architecture / Eleni Bastéa --
Spaces in tense: history, contingency, and place in a Cretan city / Thomas M. Malaby --
Poked by a "foreign finger" in Greece: conspiracy theory or the Hermeneutics of suspicion? / David Sutton --
Afterword / Loring M. Danforth.

In this volume, K.S. Brown and Yannis Hamilakis bring together scholars of history, archaeology, and anthropology to explore the located and contextual nature of historical narratives through the lens of twentieth-century Greece

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History of ancient world (to ca. 499)
Greece to 323
Ethnocentrism -- Greece -- History -- 20th century.
Historiography -- Greece -- History -- 20th century.
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