Nicholas Doumanis
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Nicholas Doumanis is a historian of
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world. Born in
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in 1964, he studied at the
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and the
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, where he acquired his PhD. Nicholas is Hellenic Foundation and Illinois Chair in Hellenic Studies and Professor of History at the
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. He was an associate professor of history at the
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, an ARC Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, and lecturer in European history at the University of Newcastle. He was awarded the Fraenkel Prize (London) in Contemporary European History fo
''Myth and Memory in the Mediterranean''
a book which was later translated into Italian by Il Mulino press under the titl
''Una Facia Una Razza''
He has also published: ''Italy, Inventing the Nation'' with Arnold Press
''A History of Greece''
with Palgrave Macmillan, which covers the span of Paleolithic to contemporary
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, an
''Before the Nation''
with
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, which describes everyday life in the late Ottoman Greek world. He edited 'The Oxford Handbook of Europe 1914-1945'' ''in 2016, and most recently co-authored'' The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 20th and early 21st centuries: Global Perspectives ''with Emeritus Professor Antonis Liakos of the University of Athens.'' ''He is now writing a history of the Eastern Mediterranean from the
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to the present for Wiley Blackwell in its'' 'History of the World' ''series''. Doumanis is the Founder and Director of the Greek-Australian Archive of NSW, Australia, is a member of the Australian Committee for the Return of the Parthenon Sculptures, and was the editor of The Journal of Religious History.


Bibliography

* Nicholas Doumanis & Antonis Liakos, ''The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 20th and early 21st centuries: Global Perspectives'', Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, 2023. *''Before the Nation: Muslim-Christian Coexistence and Its Destruction in Late-Ottoman Anatolia'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) *''A History of Greece'' (Essential Histories Series) (UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) *''Italy (Inventing the Nation)'' (London and New York: Arnold and Oxford University Press, 2002) *''Una Facia Una Razza''(Il Mulino, 2003) *''Myth and Memory in the Mediterranean: Remembering Fascism's Empire'' (London and New York: Macmillan and St. Martin's Press, 1997), *'The Ottoman Empire
''The Age of Empires ''
Robert Aldrich (ed), (Thames and Hudson, 2007), pp. 26–43 *'Europe and the Wider World' Robert Gerwath (ed), ''Twisted Paths: Europe 1915-1945'' (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007), pp. 355–80 *'Durable Empire: State virtuosity and social accommodation in the Ottoman Mediterranean', The Historical Journal 49.3 (2006), pp, 953-66 *'History Writ Large', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 51.1 (2005), pp. 114–124 *'Trading Patterns, The Mediterranean', ''Berkshire Encyclopaedia of World History'', edited by William H. McNeill, (Boston, 2005), pp. 1870–73 *'Italians as "Good" Colonizers', Ben Ghiat and Mia Fuller (eds), ''Italian Colonialism'' (Palgrave, 2005), pp. 221–232 *'The Greeks in Australia', in Richard Clogg (ed.), ''The Greek Diaspora in the Twentieth Century'' (Macmillan, London, 1999), pp 58–86 *‘The Italian Empire and brava gente: Oral History and the Dodecanese Islands, in R.J.B. Bosworth and Patrizia Dogliani (ed),'' Italian Fascism: History, Memory and Representation'' (Macmillan, London, 1999), pp. 161–77 * 'Grand History in Small Places: Social Protest on Castellorizo (1934)', Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 15.1 (1997), pp. 103–123 *'Eastern Orthodoxy and Migrant Conflict', Journal of Religious History 17.1 (1992), pp 60–77


References

* SBS Radio - Greek Festival of Sydney interview with Themis Kalos May 2010 * Review of A History of Greece in Law Society Journal


External links

* Academia.ed
Academia.edu
* UNS

* ''A History of Greece'' [http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/a-history-of-greece/3101726 Interview with Phillip Adams] ABC Radio National May 2010 * ABC Radio
Before the Nation interview
on Encounter Presented by Kerry Stewart July 2013 {{DEFAULTSORT:Doumanis, Nicholas 1964 births Living people Australian historians