Thomas W. Gallant is a historian who specializes in modern Greek history and archaeology.
at the UC San Diego dept. of historyThomas Gallant's webpage
at the UC San Diego He is holder of the Nicholas Family Endowed Chair in Modern Greek History at the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is t ...

. From 2002 to 2007 he held the Hellenic Heritage Foundation Chair of Modern Greek History at

York University York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...

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. Before that he was professor of Greek history and anthropology as well as a member of the Center for Greek Studies at the

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. He is the editor-in-chief of the ten-volume ''Edinburgh History of the Greeks'', the co-director of the

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Center for Hellenic Studies and a past president of the Modern Greek Studies Association.

Books

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The Edinburgh History of the Greeks ''The Edinburgh History of the Greeks'' is a book series published by Edinburgh University Press and edited by Thomas Gallant. The series is planned to feature 10 volumes, "covering the history of Greece and the Greeks over the last 3,500 years, fr ...

'', volume 9. ''The Long Nineteenth Century'', 2014 *''Πολιτισμός, ταυτότητα και εξουσία στα Επτάνησα, 1817-1864: Βιώματα αποικιακής κυριαρχίας'' *''Murder on Black Mountain: Love and Death on a Nineteenth Century Greek Island'' *''Modern Greece, Experiencing Dominion: Culture, Identity and Power in the British Mediterranean'' *:winner of 2003 MGSD Best Book Prize *''The 1918 Anti-Greek Riot in Toronto'' *: About the

1918 Toronto anti-Greek riot The 1918 Toronto anti-Greek riot was a three-day race riot in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, targeting Greek immigrants during August 2–4, 1918. (Some sources indicate the date range August 1–5, to include the event that triggered the violence an ...

. The book was presented at the House of Commons, Canada in 2005 "Jim Karygiannis on The 1918 Anti-Greek Riot in Toronto"
/ref> and a documentary was shot in 2010 based on the book *''Modern Greece: Society, Politics and Economy'', translated into Greek as: ** ''Νεωτέρη Ελλάδα. Μια κοινωνική και πολιτική ιστορία'' *''Outlaws: Bandits, Pirates and the Making of the Modern World'' *''Athens: A Social History''

References

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