TY - BOOK ID - 77870868 TI - Fields of wheat, hills of blood PY - 1997 SN - 1282069993 9786612069994 0226424995 9780226424996 9780226424934 0226424936 0226424936 0226424944 9780226424941 PB - Chicago University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Ethnohistory KW - Nationalism KW - Consciousness, National KW - Identity, National KW - National consciousness KW - National identity KW - International relations KW - Patriotism KW - Political science KW - Autonomy and independence movements KW - Internationalism KW - Political messianism KW - Ethnohistorical method KW - Historical anthropology KW - Historical ethnology KW - Anthropology KW - Ethnology KW - Methodology KW - Assiros Region (Greece) KW - History KW - world history, ethnic identities, conflict, violence, nationhood, greece, macedonia, 20th century, archival sources, contentious debate, nationalist ideologies, cultural backgrounds, population movements, social issues, refugee resettlements, politics, europe, european nations, enthnicity, identity, culture, economic migration, state formation, assiros region. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77870868 AB - Deftly combining archival sources with evocative life histories, Anastasia Karakasidou brings welcome clarity to the contentious debate over ethnic identities and nationalist ideologies in Greek Macedonia. Her vivid and detailed account demonstrates that contrary to official rhetoric, the current people of Greek Macedonia ultimately derive from profoundly diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Throughout the last century, a succession of regional and world conflicts, economic migrations, and shifting state formations has engendered an intricate pattern of population movements and refugee resettlements across the region. Unraveling the complex social, political, and economic processes through which these disparate peoples have become culturally amalgamated within an overarchingly Greek national identity, this book provides an important corrective to the Macedonian picture and an insightful analysis of the often volatile conjunction of ethnicities and nationalisms in the twentieth century. "Combining the thoughtful use of theory with a vivid historical ethnography, this is an important, courageous, and pioneering work which opens up the whole issue of nation-building in northern Greece."-Mark Mazower, University of Sussex ER -