Download or read book Greece Since 1945 written by David H. Close and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only history of Greece in English to be devoted to the period 1945-2000, and the first book to analyse the important developments since 1990, this introduction takes an analytical as well as chronological approach. Frequent comparisons are made with countries of western Europe (especially Italy, Portugal and Spain) and with other Balkan countries, in order to show how Greece converged with Western Europe and in what ways it remained unique or characteristically Balkan. It assumes no previous knowledge of the subject.