| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.1

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Methods/Theory

Penelope Papailias. Genres of Recollection: Archival Poetics and Modern Greece. (Anthropology, History, and the Critical Imagination.) New York: Palgrave MacMillan. 2005. Pp. xv, 301. Cloth $85.00, paper $26.95.

If Italo Calvino had been a historian, he might well have written a book like this one: clever, thoughtful, elusive, erudite, a bit involuted. At once a study of Greek history, of the way Greek history is studied, and of the meaning of history both as concept and discipline, the book zeroes in on the pivotal moments in Greece's difficult twentieth century in the effort both to better understand that century and to understand how it is that professional historians have managed so thoroughly to delude themselves into thinking that they hold a monopoly on the past and on historical production. The ground shifts beneath the reader's feet.

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