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This practical, concise guide showcases the sustainable methods offered by green free radical chemistry and summarizes the fundamental science involved.

This practical, concise guide showcases the sustainable methods offered by green free radical chemistry and summarizes the fundamental science involved.

This work examines the background to Greek nationalist politics and its effects on public opinion towards international events and territorial claims, from the end of the Second World War to the collapse of constitutional rule in 1967. It explains how intermittent public mobilisation on various foreign policy issues created a political culture that combined elements of nationalism, religion, race and stereotypes about the national Self and the Other. The book challenges widely-held assumptions that Greek irredentism was all but dead and buried in the aftermath of the Asia Minor catastrophe of 1922, and that anti-Americanism was the product of US support for the Colonels' regime of 1967-74 and its condoning of the Turkish occupation of northern Cyprus. It begins with an examination of the revival of irredentism in connection with Greek national claims after 1945 and the two campaigns for the union of Cyprus with Greece during the 1950s and 1960s. The second part of the study reveals anti-Americanism to be largely the result of failed post-war Greek territorial ambitions - particularly the frustration of the Enosis claim - rather than the actual intervention of the United States in Greek affairs. Drawing on a huge variety of sources including the Greek press, records of the Greek Parliament, the US and British National Archives, as well the archives of numerous individuals, this book provides a fascinating account of Greek political culture and national self image at a crucial time in the country's political development.

During the dictatorship of the Colonels in Greece, there was an attempt at self-transformation into some form of civilian rule in 1973: the so-called 'Markezinis experiment', named after the politician who assumed the task of heading the transition government and lead to elections. It lasted a mere eight weeks, faced heavy opposition from both the opposition elites and the civil society and eventually collapsed by a military hard-liners' coup. This book argues that the failure of the 'Markezinis experiment' paved the way for the actual transition of 1974 as it happened. Using British and American archival resources, as well as unique private archives and personal interviews, the book concludes by briefly seeking to trace some potential alternative paths for the failed self- transformation attempt, and by accounting for the long-term consequences of the failure of the 'Markezinis experiment'.

This thesis discusses official discourse in conjunction with discourses produced by pro-regime intellectuals involved in cultural affairs and particularly literary criticism during the Metaxas dictatorship. Its primary sources consist chiefly of periodicals that supported the dictatorship or were published by it. The thesis attempts to place these discourses in a wider context by comparing them with those produced by far-right intellectual and political circles in other European countries in the first half of the twentieth century and by pinpointing their pre-1936 indigenous sources. It is argued that the level of erudition displayed by critics and cultural operators along with the regime's self-styling as a Kulturstaat enabled such intellectuals to play a significant political (legitimising and propagandistic) role. The structure is thematic and revolves around these four themes: past, nation, authority and hierarchy, and future. The first topic is analysed through the discussion of specific historical periods that were the focus of Metaxist discourse and the modes of historical understanding that characterised it. The second theme is examined based on questions regarding the representation of the essence of Hellenism and the cultural definition of the nation, the emphasis on the homeland and its aesthetic or metaphysical attributes, the promotion of vernacular culture and language, and notions of national unity. The third topic encompasses propaganda related to order, discipline, and absolutism, as well as hierarchy, elitism, and the doctrine of charismatic leadership. The analysis of the fourth topic is pursued by means of discussing propaganda related to new chronotopes, the Third Hellenic Civilisation, and the youth.