Demon Entrepreneurs: Refashioning the ‘Greek Genius’ in Modern Times

Greece, a Nation of Commercial and other Geniuses in a State Fit for Petty Traders and Poor Devils: An Introduction

Basil. C. Gounaris https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1425-5149

1. Greek Subtlety and Ingenuity: Anglo-French Variations on a Classical Theme

Evangelos Sakkas https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9251-4022

2. Greeks on Seventeenth Century Dutch Ships and Print(s)

Constantine Theodoridis https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4621-1244

3. Representations of Greek Entrepreneurship between Projection and Reception in Eighteenth-Century German Sources.

Ioannis Zelepos

4. Pious and Heroic Contrabands: The Greek Character in Russian Perspective (c.1800)

Tatiana Triantafyllidou https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3509-1881

5. Nineteenth Century British Travellers’ View of the Greek Character

Alexis Dassios https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4093-8832

Part II A Nation of Geniuses

6. The ‘Greek Genius’ in the Service of the Nation: The Greek Enlightenment

Kostas Sarris https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6330-4517

7. Explaining, Enhancing, Disseminating the ‘Greek Genius’ through Textbooks (c.1870-1980)

Vasileios Foukas https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6078-3340

8. Profiling the ‘Greek Genius’: Nineteenth Century Biographies of Illustrious Greeks

Sotiroula Vasileiou https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6277-0068

9. Ingenious Emigrants

Kostantinos Diogos https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4952-1507

Part III Exorcising the Greek Daimonion

10. Orthodox Christian Ambiguities: The ‘Greek Genius’ between Achievements and Morals

Vasilios N. Makrides https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3783-2655

11. Class or Inherent Vice? The Marxist View of the ‘Greek Genius’

Loukianos Hassiotis https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5644-7202

12. Genius and Demonic Routes in Modern Greek Prose (c. 1880-1940)

Mairi Mike https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5538-1504

13. Demon Entrepreneurs and Poor Devils in Post World War II Greek Cinema

Giorgos Andritsos https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0225-7075

14. Aspects of Ingenuity in Greek Popular Culture

Vassilis Vamvakas https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7741-9235

Part IV A Genius for all Times

15. Indigenous and Incoming Demon Businessmen during Trikoupis’ Modernising Era

Elpida K. Vogli https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4248-2231

16. Perceptions of the ‘Greek Genius’ during the Interwar Economic Crisis

Eleftheria Manta https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4813-4580

17. A ‘Daimonion’ for Times of Recovery and Growth, 1945-67

Ioannis D. Stefanidis https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2832-5443

18. ‘Greek Genius’ vs the Troika in the 2010s

Panagiotis Paschalidis https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4305-3279

Biography

Basil C. Gounaris (DPhil Oxon) is Professor of Modern History at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and vice-chair (2021-23) of the Observatory on History Teaching in Europe (Council of Europe). His books include Steam over Macedonia: Socio-Economic Change and the Railway Factor, Boulder & New York: East European Monographs, 1993; The Balkans of the Greeks: From the Enlightenment to World War I (in Greek), Thessaloniki: Epikentro, 2007; ‘See how the Gods Favour Sacrilege’: English Views and Politics on Candia under Siege (1645-1669), Athens: NRF, 2012; ‘Today is not like yesteryear’: Greek Armatole-Klephts and Albanian Rebels (in Greek), Athens: NRF, 2019.

Ioannis D. Stefanidis (PhD LSE) is Professor in Diplomatic History, Department of International Studies, School of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His publications include: Isle of Discord: Nationalism, Imperialism and the Making of the Cyprus Question (London and New York, 1999); Stirring the Greek Nation: Political Culture, Irredentism and Anti-Americanism in Post-War Greece, 1945-67 (Aldershot, 2007); Substitute for Power: British Propaganda to the Balkans, 1939-1944 (Aldershot, 2012), ‘America’s Projection and Democracy Promotion: The ‘Voice of America’, Greece under the Colonels and Ceauşescu’s Romania’, Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, xxxii, no.33 (2016/17), 167-237.