Beschreibung:
Nicholas Doumanis teaches world history at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. His first book, Myth and Memory in the Mediterranean (1997) won the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. He has written extensively on the history of Mediterranean Europe, social memory, and migration.
Considers the nature of Muslim-Christian relations within a multi-ethnic empire and draws on popular memory to investigate coexistence at the grass-roots level. Demonstrates the essential role of state-perpetrated political violence in hardening identity boundaries and in transforming Ottoman subjects into Turkish and Greek nationals.
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