"DEMETRIOS IS NOW JIMMY:" GREEK IMMIGRANTS IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES, 1895-1965
Author: Lazar "Larry" Odzak
This work explores the arrival of Greek immigrants to the southern urban areas, in the early 1900s, and their remarkably rapid adjustment and acculturation to life in the New South. Although there was no "melting pot," these newcomers swiftly adapted to the evolving and singularly American social, economic, and political tenets, even as they retained and adjusted some of their own cultural and religious traditions. The majority of these immigrants became small entrepeneurs and achieved some economic prosperity, which was at the root of their successful adaptation and settlement in the southern cities. New ground is also covered by examining specific cases where the immigrant group was just large enough to create its own viable community, but lacked the "critical mass" of large immigrant communities where Old World cultures survived longer and slowed down the process of acculturation and adjustment to American ways.
For more information on this book and other issues related to immigration and ethnicity, please take a look at the web site DemetriosIsNowJimmy.com
THE CONSERVATIVE IN SPITE OF HIMSELF: A RELUCTANT RIGHT-WINGER'S THOUGHTS ON LIFE, LAW AND THE THREE STOOGES
Author: Maximilian Longley
Are you interested in the right to life? Have you ever wanted to know about the career of the founder of Manichaeism? Do you like ghost stores involving Thomas Jefferson? Are you curious about Fred Phelps and his merry gang of funeral-picketers? Do you want to know how the people of Hawaii endured under martial law? Are you curious about the legacy of Tom Paine? Do you like to cheer on Shaolin Kung Fu champions? Do you want to follow the time-traveling misadventures of the Three Stooges? Then read this book. You'll find out all you ever wanted to know (and more) about the topics just enumerated, as well as lots of other issues.
CONSTANTINOPLE: THE BEAUTIFUL CITY AND THE DESTRUCTION OF ITS GREEK, ARMENIAN, AND JEWISH COMMUNITIES
Author: Foti Jean-Pierre Fotiu
For centuries, Constantinople was the great center of learning, culture, and religion. Capital of the Byzantine Empire, as well as the seat of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of the Greek [Eastern] Orthodox Christianity, its importance remained evident even after the Ottoman conquest and finally after its inclusion in the present Turkish state. One can still see the reasons for its greatness, both in its architecture and its important position as the cosmopolitan metropolis on the waterway which marks the line between Europe and Asia.
The author was born in Constantinople, renamed Istanbul, and in this book he weaves together the strands of his own personal experiences and the pertinent wider historical and political background leading up to the Turkish pogrom of September 5-6, 1955. Very astutely, he analyzes and links the complex interplay that took place on the international and regional scene, with the internal agitation within Turkish political and nationalistic circles. With great feeling, yet quite objectively, the author describes that fateful night of terror in Istanbul, which initiated the final destruction of the Greek, Armenian, and Jewish ethnic communities in the great city.
In addition, the reader is informed about the varied and conflicting responses and reactions to the pogrom, which again affected and influenced the local and international sphere even unto the present day. The author is to be highly recommended for his evenhanded, factual examination of the events and perceptive conclusions.
TO MARK THE SESQUICENTENNIAL OF THE CIVIL WAR [1861-1865], we are publishing soon [most likely in digital form] a historical chronicle titled: A NATION DIVIDING: The Debates in the US Senate, December 1860 to July 1861. Fastidiously edited by Scott Schudy and including a comprehensive timeline (see excerpts here), this work will be of great interest both to historians in general and to Civil War aficionados in particular. For a Powerpoint presentation about this book, click on the picture below...
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