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Commander of the Karteria
From participating in the Battle of Trafalgar as an 11 year old trainee Midshipman to his untimely death as Commander of the very first steamship used in naval warfare, Frank Abney Hastings' life is portrayed vividly throughout this book. Born into a privileged aristocratic family Frank Abney Hastings had a potentially brilliant career mapped out in the British Royal Navy, but partly due to his own sense of honour and political atmosphere at this time, it was cut short. His passionate interest in artillery and early 19th Century naval warfare, combined with his desire to participate in the Greek fight for independence from Ottoman rule, lead him to become one of the most revered Phillhellene...
The Bookseller
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Greece
We think we know ancient Greece, the civilisation that shares the same name and gave us just about everything that defines 'western' culture today, in the arts, sciences, social sciences and politics. Yet, as Greece has been brought under repeated scrutiny during the financial crises that have convulsed the country since 2010, worldwide coverage has revealed just how poorly we grasp the modern nation. This book sets out to understand the modern Greeks on their own terms. How did Greece come to be so powerfully attached to the legacy of the ancients in the first place, and then define an identity for themselves that is at once Greek and modern? This book reveals the remarkable achievement, during the last 300 years, of building a modern nation on, sometimes literally, the ruins of a vanished civilisation. This is the story of the Greek nation-state but also, and perhaps more fundamentally, of the collective identity that goes with it. It is not only a history of events and high politics, it is also a history of culture, of the arts, of people and of ideas.
APAIS, Australian Public Affairs Information Service
Vol. for 1963 includes section Current Australian serials; a subject list.
Lord Byrons letzte Fahrt
Der Aufstand gegen das Osmanische Reich und die Geburt der griechischen Nation - erzählt als Tragikomödie. Der Griechische Unabhängigkeitskrieg (1821-29): eine Rebellion, bei der nichts so war, wie es schien. Er zog tausende Philhellenen aus allen Teilen Europas an: Schwärmer, Narren, Hochstapler, Gauner, Idealisten - unter ihnen der Dichter Lord Byron. Vor Ort zerschellten ihre Illusionen an der griechischen Realität: Der "Freiheitskampf" wurde von Banditenbanden, Warlords und Großgrundbesitzern geführt, die muslimische und jüdische Bevölkerung wurde in den ersten Kriegsmonaten ermordet oder vertrieben, die Osmanen verwalteten lediglich ihr erodierendes Reich und die britischen Kre...
New Society
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