Dimitris Livanios

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Economic and Political Sciences, Dept of Journalism and Mass Media, Faculty Member

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Βασίλης Γούναρης - Δημήτρης Λυβάνιος (επιμ.), Αγνωστες Πτυχές του '21: Νέοι ιστορικοί του ΑΠΘ ερευνούν τον αγώνα των Ελλήνων για ανεξαρτησία

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The Macedonian Question: Britain and the Southern Balkans 1939-1949

Μακεδονικό και Βρετανία (1939-1949).

Greek edition of my book

Reviews (of the english edition of my book) by Dimitris Livanios

Reviews by: 1) M. A. Hoare; 2) S. Pavlowitch; 3) J. Pettifer; 4) D. Djokic; 5) J. Krulic; 6) B. Radeljic

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Reviews by: 1) A. Tziampiris; 2) B. Aleksov

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Review by J. Prochazka (in Czech)

Reviews (of the Greek edition of my book) by Dimitris Livanios

Review by V. Kalogrias

Book review of the Greek edition of my book

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articles and book-chapters by Dimitris Livanios

"Civilian Leaders and the Beginnings of the Modern State", in: Paschalis M. Kitromilides - Constantinos Tsoukalas (eds), The Greek Revolution: A Critical Dictionary (Harvard 2021)

Εισαγωγή στο βιβλίο: Τimothy Snyder - Katherine Younger (επιμ.), Τα Βαλκάνια ως Ευρώπη (1821-1914) Εκδόσεις Επίκεντρο

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“In the beginning was the word”. Orthodoxy and Bible translation into Modern Greek (16th-19th centuries)

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A Loveless Entanglement: Britain and Bulgar-Yugoslav Relations 1924-1943

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Truth and Ethnic Truth in the Balkans

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A Central European Meets the Brigand: Ernest Gellner as a Historian of Balkan Nationalism and Violence

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Christians, Heroes and Barbarians: Serbs and Bulgarians in the Modern Greek Historical Imagination, 1602-1950

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The “Sick Man” Paradox: History, Rhetoric and the “European Character” of Turkey

Forging Identities: Studies in Religion, Violence and Nationalism in the Balkans (17th-20th centuries)

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Δημοσίευσα μια παρουσίαση του βιβλίου αυτού στο περιοδικό The Books' Journal. Βρίσκεται στο πεδίο... more

The Macedonian Question: Britain and the Southern Balkans 1939-1949

Μακεδονικό και Βρετανία (1939-1949).

Greek edition of my book

Reviews by: 1) M. A. Hoare; 2) S. Pavlowitch; 3) J. Pettifer; 4) D. Djokic; 5) J. Krulic; 6) B. Radeljic

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Reviews by: 1) A. Tziampiris; 2) B. Aleksov

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Review by J. Prochazka (in Czech)

Review by V. Kalogrias

Book review of the Greek edition of my book

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"Civilian Leaders and the Beginnings of the Modern State", in: Paschalis M. Kitromilides - Constantinos Tsoukalas (eds), The Greek Revolution: A Critical Dictionary (Harvard 2021)

Εισαγωγή στο βιβλίο: Τimothy Snyder - Katherine Younger (επιμ.), Τα Βαλκάνια ως Ευρώπη (1821-1914) Εκδόσεις Επίκεντρο

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“In the beginning was the word”. Orthodoxy and Bible translation into Modern Greek (16th-19th centuries)

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A Loveless Entanglement: Britain and Bulgar-Yugoslav Relations 1924-1943

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Truth and Ethnic Truth in the Balkans

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A Central European Meets the Brigand: Ernest Gellner as a Historian of Balkan Nationalism and Violence

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Christians, Heroes and Barbarians: Serbs and Bulgarians in the Modern Greek Historical Imagination, 1602-1950

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The “Sick Man” Paradox: History, Rhetoric and the “European Character” of Turkey

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Pride, Prudence and Fear of God: The Loyalties of Alexander and Nicholas Mavrocordatos (1664 - 1730)

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Beyond 'ethnic cleansing': aspects of the functioning of violence in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Balkans"

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'Conquering the Souls': nationalism and Greek guerrilla warfare in Ottoman Macedonia, 1904-1908

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The Quest for Hellenism: Religion, Nationalism and Collective Identities in Greece, 1453-1913

The main aim of this essay is to offer a critical survey of the development of Greek collective i... more The main aim of this essay is to offer a critical survey of the development of Greek collective identities, between 1453 and 1913. That period witnessed dramatic transformations, and the arrival of a modernising and Westernising wave, which crashed onto the Greek shores in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The ensuing clash between Western and modern ideas of nationalism on the one hand, and timehonoured local mentalities nurtured by Orthodoxy and the Ottoman millet system, on the other, was intense. This paper attempts to chart some salient aspects of that struggle, to discuss the evolution of concepts and words, such as "Hellene" [OEÏÏËÓ·˜], "Hellenism" [∂ÏÏËÓÈÛÌfi˜], "Roman" [ƒˆÌÈfi˜] and "Romiosyne" [ƒˆÌÈÔÛ ‡ÓË], and to place them within their changing historical context.

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Ανεπιθύμητοι Ελευθερωτές: Ο βουλγαρικός στρατός στη Γιουγκοσλαβική Μακεδονία

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Πολιτικές Εξελίξεις στη Γιουγκοσλαβική Μακεδονία (1941-1948)

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Βαλκανικοί εθνικισμοί και ευρωπαϊκές προτεραιότητες: Μια βρετανική πηγή για το Μακεδονικό Ζήτημα την περίοδο του μεσοπολέμου

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Η Μικρασιατική Εκστρατεία, 1919-1922 (Μέρος Α)

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Η Μικρασιατική Εκστρατεία, 1919-1922 (Μέρος Β)

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"Πολιτικές" Προτεραιότητες του Μακεδονικού Αγώνα

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Balkan histories: Stevan Pavlowitch and Misha Glenny

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SOE in Yugoslavia

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Nationalism in Eastern Europe and the Balkans [review article of: Peter Sugar, East European Nationalism, Politics and Religion (Aldershot: Variorum 1999), and Peter Sugar, Nationality and Society in Habsburg and Ottoman Europe (Aldershot: Variorum 1997)]

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The Ottomans and the Balkans

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Thomas W. Gallant, The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1768 to 1913: The Long Nineteenth Century

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B. Gounaris, Τα Βαλκάνια των Ελλήνων

Maria Koundoura, The Greek Idea

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Vemund Aarbakke, Ethnic Rivalry and the Quest for Macedonia, 1870-1913

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.

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Nicholas Doumanis, Before the Nation

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Nikiforos Diamandouros on modern Greek state formation

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Mark Mazower (ed.), After the War was Over

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John Koliopoulos - Thanos Veremis, Greece: The Modern Sequel

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John Koliopoulos - Thanos Veremis, Modern Greece: A History Since 1821

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B. Fortna et.al. (eds), State nationalisms in the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Turkey

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Paschalis Kitromilides (ed.), Eleftherios Venizelos: The Trials of Statemanship

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Maria Todorova (ed.), Balkan Identities: Nation and Memory

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Mark Mazower (ed.), Networks of power in modern Greece: essays in honour of John Campbell

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Raymond Detrez, Historical Dictionary of Bulgaria

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Victor Roudometof, Collective Memory, National Identity and Ethnic Conflict

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Kitromilides-Tabaki (eds), Greek-Romanian Relations

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Ο Κολιόπουλος και το Μακεδονικό Ζήτημα

Athens Review Of Books (vol 143), 2022

Η επισήμανση ότι ο ιστορικός επιλέγει τα θέματά του με βάση και τις προσωπικές του ευαισθησίες εί... more Η επισήμανση ότι ο ιστορικός επιλέγει τα θέματά του με βάση και τις προσωπικές του ευαισθησίες είναι, βέβαια, κοινότοπη, όσο και ακριβής. Οι ιστοριογραφικές επιλογές του Κολιόπουλου δεν αποτελούν εξαίρεση: το βιβλίο του για τη ληστεία, για παράδειγμα, έχει τις «καταβολές» του στις ιστορίες που άκουγε στο γενέθλιο τόπο του, την ορεινή Δυτική Μακεδονία, και στο «ακαταμάχητο κάλεσμα της σύγχρονης ελληνικής 'κλεφτουριάς'». 1 Αν και σε υστερότερο έργο του προσυπέγραψε την άποψη του Λουκιανού, που ήθελε τον ιστορικό «άπολι», δηλαδή χωρίς πατρίδα, αυτό οφειλόταν μάλλον στο μέλημά του να τονίσει ότι η ιστορική επιστήμη θα πρέπει να είναι «αστράτευτη» παρά στην υποβάθμιση του ρόλου των προσωπικών βιωμάτων. 2 Κατά συνέπεια, η ενασχόλησή του με τις ταραγμένες ιστορικές διαδρομές της γενέτειράς του κατά τη δεκαετία του 1940 είναι απολύτως εύλογη. Η «κινητήρια συγκίνηση» για την έρευνα προήλθε από τη μικροϊστορία της οικογενείας του, που οδήγησε τον πατέρα του στον Εθνικό Στρατό, τον νεότερο αδελφό του πατέρα του στον Δημοκρατικό, και τον ίδιο σε παρακείμενο χωριό, υπό «τον βόμβο των αεροπλάνων και τον κρότο των οβίδων». Ωστόσο, η χρονικότητα της ενασχόλησης αυτής, η δεκαετία του 1990, επιβλήθηκε από τις τότε συνθήκες, καθώς την περίοδο αυτή το Μακεδονικό επανήλθε με σφοδρότητα στο προσκήνιο, προκαλώντας ισχυρότατες αναταράξεις. Σε μια συγκυρία που δεν ευνοούσε τις ψύχραιμες προσεγγίσεις, ο Κολιόπουλος εξέδωσε δύο τόμους με τον τίτλο Λεηλασία

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Donald Nicol, Byzantine historian (1923-2003)

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John Campbell and modern Greek studies at St Antony's College, Oxford

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Παρουσίαση του βιβλίου: Βασίλης Γούναρης -Δημήτρης Λυβάνιος (επιμ.), Άγνωστες πτυχές του '21: νέοι ιστορικοί του ΑΠΘ ερευνούν τον αγώνα των Ελλήνων για ανεξαρτησία (Θεσσαλονίκη: University Studio Press)

Η παρουσίαση αυτή δημοσιεύτηκε στο περιοδικό The Books' Journal (τχ Μαϊου, 2022)

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Η συμβολή του Ρωσο-Ουκρανικού πολέμου στην εδραίωση του ουκρανικού εθνικισμού.

παρουσίαση συνέντευξής μου στην διαδικτυακή εφημερίδα "VORIA" (24/3/2020) https://www.voria.gr/ar... more

Η βία των εθνών

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Μνήμη και λήθη των εθνών

Εγχειρίδιο ιστορίας της νεότερης και σύγχρονης Ελλάδας

Η Συνθήκη της Λωζάννης

Η Μάχη της Κρήτης

'Conquering the Souls': Nationalism, Religion and Violence in the Balkans During the 'Long Nineteenth century', c. 1774 - c. 1913.

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Making Borders, Unmaking Identities: Frontiers and Nationalism in the Balkans, 1774 - 1913

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Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (published by Maney Publishing, on behalf of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham)

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (published by Taylor and Francis - ELIAMEP)

The Anglo-Hellenic Review (published by the Anglo-Hellenic League)

ΚΛΕΙΩ: Περιοδική έκδοση για τη Νεότερη Ιστορία (published by Επίκεντρο)

Programmes of conferences that I have (co-) organised

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Θεσσαλονίκη: Μια πόλη σε μετάβαση, 1912-2012

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Syllabus on nationalism taught at the University of Cambridge (International Programmes)

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Syllabi of courses taught at Brown University

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Students' assessment of my courses at Brown University

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Students' assessment of my Cambridge course on nationalism

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Research project on religion and politics in the Ottoman world (2002)

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BOOK REVIEW by Dimitris Livanios. State nationalisms in the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Turkey. Orthodox and Muslims, 1830–1945. Edited by Benjamin C. Fortna, Stefanos Katsikas, Dimitris Kamouzis, Paraskevas Konortas, 2014.

by Ayhan Aktar and Dimitris Livanios

London and New York, Routledge, 2013.

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<i>The Greek Idea: The Formation of National and Transnational Identities</i> (review)

Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 2009

and is able to engage freely in sexual activity” (p. 70); and that “the farmers of Argolida perce... more and is able to engage freely in sexual activity” (p. 70); and that “the farmers of Argolida perceive themselves to be involved in a class struggle with a European bourgeoisie” (p. 175). The reader is not given any basis upon which to judge such statements; readers either have to agree or disagree. Lawrence has covered the relevant literature reasonably well with some notable exceptions, such as Susan Buck Sutton’s edited collection, Contingent Countryside: Settlement, Economy, and Land Use in the Southern Argolid since 1700 (Stanford University Press 2000). Also, data in a couple of sections of the book do not reflect the accession of ten new member states to the EU in 2004. The addition of these new members fundamentally alters the legal status of many (mainly Eastern European) potential agricultural workers who might move to the Argolid, newcomers who may or may not displace the majority Albanian illegal migrants. Despite these limitations, Lawrence provides valuable documentation of the experience of illegal migrants in the Argolid, adding to the growing literature on the rapidly changing phenomenon of migration across Europe.

The Quest for Hellenism: Religion, Nationalism and Collective Identities in Greece (1453-1913)

The Historical Review/La Revue Historique, 2006

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Outcast Europe, The Balkans, 1789-1989. From the Ottomans to Miloševićby Tom Gallagher

Tom Gallagher. Outcast Europe, The Balkans, 1789-1989. From the Ottomans to Milosevic. London and... more Tom Gallagher. Outcast Europe, The Balkans, 1789-1989. From the Ottomans to Milosevic. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. xvii, 314 pp. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $90.00, cloth.The dissolution of Yugoslavia and the horrors that followed have led to a stream of recent publications about the Balkans. Much writing focuses on the role of violence in the region, and the relations of the Balkans with "Europe." Predictably, conflicting interpretations emerge: for politicians and many journalists, the region is immersed in "ancient hatreds," more or less obscure and incomprehensible. The "Balkanites" are doomed to butcher one another with relish, for their tradition glorifies violence and their history is punctuated by warfare and ethnic friction. Despite their claims, they are neither Europeans, nor have they ever been accepted as such. Facing such assertions, scholars and journalists with scholarly credentials have frequently been obliged to push the swinging pendulum to the other side: the region is definitely part of Europe, they conclude. And the main culprit is Europe itself. Often behaving like bulls in the Balkan china-shop, the European powers have exploited the peninsula, destabilized it, and, ultimately abandoned it to languish in the quagmire their policies created.Outcast Europe broadly supports this school of thought. According to its back cover "[t]he chief argument... is that the proximity of the Balkans to the great powers is the main reason for instability and decline." This is the "first book," we are told, "to argue systematically that many of the Balkan's gravest problems are external in origin." Setting aside this overstatement about primogeniture (Misha Glenny's book on the Balkans, to cite but one example, laboured a similar point in 1999) the Great Powers have a lot to answer for: they "have behaved in a predatory or neglectful way towards the region," which in many instances became "a playground for the powers to pursue their rivalries;" European "rulers and their diplomatic advisers have often become prisoners of the unfortunate stereotypes which the region has acquired," and have often demonstrated "stunning lack of foresight;" last, but by no means least, the powers are castigated for their "lethargy," "prejudices" and "cynicism."To illustrate these points Gallagher surveys the history of the Balkans from the French Revolution to the rise of Slobodan Milosevic. Reflecting the author's preoccupation with external involvement, the book is uneven in its coverage and concentrates mainly on foreign affairs, and on the twentieth century. The period from 1789 to 1914 receives as much treatment as the 1940s, and when the focus shifts to domestic developments there are many gaps: the Serbian uprising of 1804, for example, is not discussed, and the Bulgarian national movement is touched upon only in connection with Pan-Slav agitation and the "Bulgarian Horrors. …