After the War Was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation, and State in Greece, 1943-1960

This volume makes available some of the most exciting research currently underway into Greek society after Liberation. Together, its essays map a new social history of Greece in the 1940s and 1950s, a period in which the country grappled—bloodily—with foreign occupation and intense civil conflict.


Extending innovative historical approaches to Greece, the contributors explore how war and civil war affected the family, the law, and the state. They examine how people led their lives, as commun...