[The American Conservative] The Meaning of Greece

Behind Roderick Beaton’s masterful history lies the question: What do we owe Greece?

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The Greeks: A Global History. By Roderick Beaton. Basic Books; 590 pages; 35.00$

Someday toward the late 1970s, as the European Economic Community (EEC) readied to rebuff yet another of Greece’s successive bids for…