Eleftherios Venizelos: The Trials of Statesmanship Paperback - 2008 - 1st Edition

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'Extremely timely in making the most recent scholarship on Venizelos widely available. It is all the more welcome because the portrait provided is rounded and mature - Venizelos was always driven relentlessly by "the intense politicization of life", and it is the politics which come alive in this indispensable book.' The Anglo Hellenic Review 'At last a book in English on one of the leading European statesmen of his day and perhaps the single most important figure in modern Greek history. Venizelos, rightly, remains endlessly fascinating and this collection goes a long way to explaining why.' Dr Margaret MacMillan, St Antony's College, Oxford 'This is an excellent and coherent collection of scholarly essays in a very important subject. Although Venizelos was one of the key figures of the Paris peace settlement, there is little scholarly work on him available in English. This book will therefore be invaluable not just for historians of modern Greece and the Balkans, but also of diplomacy and international affairs in general.' Professor Mark Mazower, Columbia University Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece, 1910-1920 and 1928-1932, could be considered from many points of view the creator of contemporary Greece and one of the main actors in European diplomacy in the period 1910-1935. Yet the last book-length study discussing the man, his politics and his broader role in twentieth-century history appeared in English more than fifty years ago. The aspiration of this book is to fill the lacuna by bringing together the concerted research effort of twelve experts on Greek history and politics. It draws on considerable new research that has appeared in Greek in the last quarter century, but does not confine the treatment of the subject to a purely Greek or even Balkan context. Instead, the entire project is oriented toward placing the study of Venizelos' leadership in the broad setting of twentieth-century politics and diplomacy. The complex and oft