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Although perhaps a little age-darkened, this book is tight, intact, unbumped, unfrayed, and with no stains, dents or tears. With inscription from author to Prof. K.M. Setton (1914 - 1995) of the Institute for Advanced Study.Stephen George Chaconas (1912 - 2024) wrote a classic monograph on the intellectual phenomenon of Greek nationalism as embodied in Adamantios Koraïs, (1748 - 1833) the Smyrna-born Greek scholar and nationalist who was a major figure in the Greek Enlightenment.
Chaconas, although a history professor, spent 35 years in the CIA, including in Greece,and produced a detailed chronology and account of the founding father of the modern Greek Nation, examining the factors which contributed to Koraïs's conception of nationalism and his distaste for the Ottoman influence upon Greece, his theories and practices, and what effect he had on the evolution of the Greek national state and language.
Koraïs was a renowned scholar, observer of the French Revolution, and highly influenced by… Read More