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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

Ethnohistory --- Nationalism --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Ethnohistorical method --- Historical anthropology --- Historical ethnology --- Anthropology --- Ethnology --- Methodology --- Assiros Region (Greece) --- History --- 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.