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The United States and the making of modern Greece : history and power, 1950-1974 /

Focusing on one of the most dramatic and controversial periods in modern Greek history and in the history of the Cold War, James Edward Miller provides the first study to employ a wide range of international archives--American, Greek, English, and French--together with foreign language publications...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, James Edward
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Focusing on one of the most dramatic and controversial periods in modern Greek history and in the history of the Cold War, James Edward Miller provides the first study to employ a wide range of international archives--American, Greek, English, and French--together with foreign language publications to shed light on the role the United States played in Greece between the termination of its civil war in 1949 and Turkey's 1974 invasion of Cyprus. Miller demonstrates how U.S. officials sought, over a period of twenty-five years, to cultivate Greece as a strategic Cold War ally in order to check the s.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvi, 301 pages) : maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index.
ISBN:9780807887943
0807887943
9781469606002
1469606003