ISBN10: 0415034825, ISBN13: 9780415034821, [publisher: Routledge, London] Hardcover First Edition 1st printing (1990). 289pp. VG+/VG+ copy, now preserved in archival jacket protector
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1990]
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ISBN10: 0415034825, ISBN13: 9780415034821, [publisher: London, New York: Routledge] Hardcover XVII, 289 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen / a good and clean copy without markings. - When the Napoleonic Wars closed much of Europe to British travellers, young Grand Tourists extended their horizons to Greece, then part of the Ottoman Empire. Though many of the young travellers had a special interest in Greek antiquities and topography, at least as many were interested in the contemporary scene, with a Romantic love of antiquity infecting their interpretation of Turkish oppression and Greek servitude. Travellers like William Gell, Lord Byron, Edward Dodwell, F.S.N. Douglas, W.M. Leake, and many others wrote detailed accounts of their travels. In this book Helen Angelomatis-Tsougarakis makes systematic use of these writings to build up a detailed portrait of early nineteenth-century Greece through the eyes of its visitors. The emphasis is on modern Greece and its inhabitants, rather than on archaeological and topographical research, and we see the travellers’ views about the institutions and the peoples who lived in Greece, the state of the people’s education and culture, ...
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ISBN10: 0415034825, ISBN13: 9780415034821, [publisher: London [u.a.] : Routledge] Hardcover XVII, 289 S., Abb., 22 cm, Schutzumschlag. Sprache: Englisch
[Köln, Germany] [Publication Year: 1990]

ISBN10: 0415034825, ISBN13: 9780415034821, [publisher: Routledge] Hardcover Book is in Used-LikeNew condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear.
[Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1990]