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Selected English-Language Library Resources on Modern Greek History
**If you need to check out a non-circulating work (e.g., to scan an image), please contact George Paganelis (paganelis@csus.edu).**
Handbooks:
About Greece. Athens: Ministry of Press and Mass Media, Secretariat General of Information, 1999.
DF 717 .A64 1999 | 3 NORTH Tsak. Reference
About Cyprus. Cyprus: Press and Information Office, Republic of Cyprus, [2007].
DS 54 .A3 A36 2007 | 3 NORTH Tsak. Reference
These handbooks, in addition to offering a brief histories of their respective countries, contain sections on foreign policy, the environment, mass media, legal system, women, culture, etc.
Indexes:
Modern Greek Society: A Social Science Newsletter. New Hampton, N.Y.: Modern Greek Association of the United States and Canada.
DF 755.82 .U6 M6 | 3 NORTH Tsak. Oversize
Library has 1973-1985
This publication features thematic essays and lists of publications within various fields of the social sciences.
Synopsis: An Annual Index of Greek Studies. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Harwood Academic Publishers, c1997-
Z 2281 .S966 | 3 NORTH Tsak. Reference
This index attempts to embrace the whole of Hellenic studies within a single publication; work covers the years 1992-1994.
Dictionaries:
Historical Dictionary of Greece. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1995.
DF802 .V47 1995 | 3 NORTH Tsak. Reference
Historical Dictionary of Cyprus. Lanham, Md.; London: Scarecrow Press, c1995
DS 54 .S28 P36 1995 | 3 NORTH Tsak. Reference
Dictionaries that include the people, places, events, movements, etc. important in the modern histories of each nation.
Bibliographies:
Greece. Rev. ed. Oxford; Santa Barbara: Clio Press, 1998.
DF 717 .V47 1998 | 3 NORTH Tsak. Reference
Cyprus. Rev. ed. Oxford, England; Santa Barbara, Calif.: Clio Press, c1995
DS 54 .K57 1995 | 3 NORTH Tsak. Reference
Part of the World Bibliographical Series, these volumes are comprised of annotated entries on the history, geography, economy, and politics of each country, as well as its people, culture, customs, religion, etc.
Greece in Modern Times: An Annotated Bibliography of Works Published in English in Twenty-two Academic Disciplines during the Twentieth Century. Lanham, Md.; London: Scarecrow Press, c2000-
DFZ 2281 .G73 2000 | 3 NORTH Tsak. Reference
Interdisciplinary bibliography covering the major disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. Includes author-title and a subject index.
Reference Sources:
Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition. London; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, c2000.
DF 757 .E53 2000 | 3 NORTH Tsak. Reference
Two-volume work covering the major people, places, ideas, and themes of Hellenism over the centuries.
Encyclopedia of Modern Greek Literature. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004.
PA 5210 .M44 2004 | 3 NORTH Tsak. Reference
Concise encyclopedia of the major literary figures, works, movements, and themes in modern Greek literature since the Byzantine period.
Selected Primary Source Collections:
Greece: Ethnicity and Sovereignty, 1820-1994: Atlas and Documents. Slough: Archive Editions, 2002.
DF 759 .W34 2002 | 3 NORTH Tsak. Reference
Collection of maps and primary documents detailing the historical events surrounding the concept of "The Great Idea" -- the expansion of territorial Greece to embrace ethnic and linguistic communities.
Ethnic Minorities in the Balkan States, 1860-1971 (6 vols.). Slough, UK: Archive Editions, 2003.
DR 24 .E84 2003 | 3 North Tsak. Reference
Extensive collection of documents drawn from the British Public Records Office illustrating the position of various populations and ethnic groups in the Balkan region between 1860-1971.
**The Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection owns a near-complete collection of U.S. State Department records on microfilm relating to Greece, Crete, and Cyprus, including internal affairs, political relations with the U.S. and relations with other states.**
Records of the Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs of Greece, 1910-1929 (M443) [45 reels]
Lib Media Ctr TSAK DF 833 .U54 1963
Records of the Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs of Greece, 1930-1939 (M1179) [16 reels]
Lib Media Ctr TSAK DF 833 .U542 1981
Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to the Internal Affairs of Greece, 1940-1944 (IAG4044) [20 reels]
Lib Media Ctr TSAK DF 849 .R43 1986
Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs of Greece, 1945-1949 (IAG4549) [53 reels]
Lib Media Ctr TSAK DF 849 .R436 1986
Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations between Greece and Other States, 1910-1929 (M476) [6 reels]
Lib Media Ctr TSAK DF 785 .U52
Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations between the United States and Greece, 1910-29 (M475) [3 reels]
Lib Media Ctr TSAK E 183.8 .G8 U54 1963
Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations between Turkey and Other States, 1910-29 (M363) [29 reels]
Lib Media Ctr TSAK DR 476 .U5 1961
Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations of Turkey, Greece and the Balkan States 1940-44 (T1246) [2 reels]
Lib Media Ctr TSAK DR 48 .U5 1940
Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations of Turkey, Greece and the Balkan States 1930-39 (T1245) [11 reels]
Lib Media Ctr TSAK DR 48 .U49
Despatches from United States Consuls in Piraeus, 1864-1874 (T534) [3 reels]
Lib Media Ctr TSAK E 183.8 .G8 U5565 1962
Despatches from United States Consuls in Canea, Crete, 1832-1874 (T190) [2 reels]
Lib Media Ctr TSAK E 183.8 .G8 U5563 1961
Despatches from United States Consuls in Athens, 1837-1906 (T362) [8 reels]
Lib Media Ctr TSAK E 183.8 .G8 U5584 1960
Despatches from United States Consuls in Zante, 1853-1862 (T451) [3 reels]
Lib Media Ctr TSAK E 183.8 .G8 U5588 1960
Despatches from United States Consuls in Candia, Crete, 1836-1841 (T374) [1 reel]
Lib Media Ctr TSAK E 183.8 .G8 U556 1960
Despatches from United States Ministers to Greece, 1868-1906 (T159) [18 reels]
Lib Media Ctr TSAK E 183.8 .G8 U558 1962
Despatches from United States Consuls in Chios (Scio), 1862-71 (T669) [3 reels]
Lib Media Ctr TSAK E 183.8 .G8 U5585 1962
Despatches from United States Consuls in Patras, 1874-1906 (T648) [4 reels]
Lib Media Ctr TSAK E 183.8 .G8 U5586 1962
Despatches from United States Consuls in Cyprus, 1835-1878 (T463) [2 reels]
Lib Media Ctr TSAK E 183.8 .C93 U55 1960
Despatches from United States Consuls in Salonica, 1832-1840 (T414) [1 reel]
Lib Media Ctr TSAK E 183.8 .G8 U5587 1960
Notes from the Greek Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1823-1892 (T808) [1 reel]
Lib Media Ctr TSAK E 183.8 .G8 U5 1962
Despatches from United States Consuls in Constantinople, 1820-1906 (T194) [24 reels]
1 South Microfilm Collection HC 1 .I8
Selected Subject Headings:
(recommend limiting searches to English)
- Greece History 1453-1821
- Greece History 19th Century (also 20th Century)
- Greece History 1821
- Greece History War of Independence 1821-1829 (see also Philhellenism)
- Balkan Peninsula History War of 1912-1913
- Greece History 1917-1944
- World War 1939-1945 Greece
- Greece History Occupation 1941-1944
- Greece Politics and Government 19th Century (also 20th Century)
- Greece Politics and Government 1821
- Greece Politics and Government 1935-1967
- Greece Politics and Government 1967-1974
- Greece Politics and Government 1974
Some relevant CSUS subscription databases
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Academic Search Premier:
- Multidisciplinary article database that includes history journals and related sources.
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- Article database containing over 23,000,000 records in business, science, technology, and the humanities and social sciences.
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Historical Abstracts:
- Historical Abstracts indexes and provides abstracts of over 2,100 journals, including key historical journals from virtually every major country. (For topics on Greek Americans, see America: History and Life.)
JSTOR:
- Growing electronic archive of core scholarly journals in numerous disciplines, with emphasis on the social sciences and humanities.
Project Muse: Scholarly Journals Online:
- Collection of some 250 full-text journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers in the areas of the humanities, social sciences and the arts.
Science Direct:
- Electronic collection of mainly science, technology, and medicine full text and bibliographic information, but with coverage in the social sciences business, and the arts and humanities. Hint: limit subject search to arts and humanities for best results.
WorldCat:
- The largest on-line catalog of books and other materials in the world, including over 57 million records representing the holdings of OCLC (Online Computer Center, Inc.) member libraries worldwide. Best source for requesting books through interlibrary loan.
Free Web resources:
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection (U. of Texas at Austin):
- Extensive collection of maps and other cartographic material for countries around the world, including Greece, Cyprus, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans.
Law Library of Congress Guide to Law On-line:
- Guide to Greece's legal and political system with useful links to general information about Greece.
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