{"product_id":"children-of-the-greek-civil-war-refugees-and-the-politics-of-memory-9780226135991","title":"Children of the Greek Civil War: Refugees and the Politics of Memory","description":"At the height of the Greek Civil War in 1948, thirty-eight thousand children were evacuated from their homes in the mountains of northern Greece. The Greek Communist Party relocated half of them to orphanages in Eastern Europe, while their adversaries in the national government placed the rest in children's homes elsewhere in Greece. A point of contention during the Cold War, this controversial episode continues to fuel tensions between Greeks and Macedonians and within Greek society itself. Loring M. Danforth and Riki Van Boeschoten present here for the first time a comprehensive study of the two evacuation programs and the lives of the children they forever transformed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Marshalling archival records, oral histories, and ethnographic fieldwork, the authors analyze the evacuation process, the political conflict surrounding it, the children's upbringing, and their fates as adults cut off from their parents and their homeland. They also give voice to seven refugee children who poignantly recount their childhood experiences and heroic efforts to construct new lives in diaspora communities throughout the world. A much-needed corrective to previous historical accounts, \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Greek Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e is also a searching examination of the enduring effects of displacement on the lives of refugee children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Loring M. Danforth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/28\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226135991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLoring M. Danforth\u003c\/b\u003e is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Anthropology at Bates College and the author of several books, including, most recently, \u003ci\u003eThe Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eRiki Van Boeschoten\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of social anthropology and oral history at the University of Thessaly, Greece, and the author of \u003ci\u003eFrom Armatolik to People's Rule: Investigation into the Collective Memory of Rural Greece (1750-1949)\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45134656274547,"sku":"9780226135991","price":62.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_bdf64e79-d562-4085-8a9d-e8351a79f0f3.jpg?v=1782389313","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/children-of-the-greek-civil-war-refugees-and-the-politics-of-memory-9780226135991","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}