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Book 2010

Language and National Identity in Greece, 1766-1976

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Publisher
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Published
2010
  • History
  • Language policy
  • Modern Greek language
  • Nationalism
  • Greece, intellectual life
  • Greek language, history
  • Greek language, modern
  • Nationalism, greece

This is a history of the great language controversy that has occupied and empassioned Greeks - sometimes with fatal results - for over 200 years. Mackridge explores the political, social and linguistic causes and effects of the controversy in its many and passionate manifestations.