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The Greeks in Australia / Anastasios Myrodis Tamis.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005Description: 1 online resource (x, 205 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511481284 (ebook)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 994/.00489 22
LOC classification:
  • DU122.G7 T36 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Hellas of diaspora -- The Greeks discover Australia -- Demographic characteristics -- Social and community life -- The years of respectability -- The culture and civilisation -- From migrants to citizens.
Summary: The Greeks have made an enormous contribution to Australian cultural and social life, and this book vividly tells their story. Beginning with an examination of the conditions in Europe that led to migration, it details the role of the Greeks in Australian settlement, the two large waves of Greek migration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the ways in which the Greeks have maintained a solid sense of Greek cultural expression. Numbering approximately half a million, the Greek community in Australia comprises the second largest ethnic minority after the Italians. The contribution of Greek settlers to the large industrial cities and other major urban centres modernised them by injecting new ideas into the economic, social and political life of their new environment. The role of Greek settlers has been vital in building the nation we have today.
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Hellas of diaspora -- The Greeks discover Australia -- Demographic characteristics -- Social and community life -- The years of respectability -- The culture and civilisation -- From migrants to citizens.

The Greeks have made an enormous contribution to Australian cultural and social life, and this book vividly tells their story. Beginning with an examination of the conditions in Europe that led to migration, it details the role of the Greeks in Australian settlement, the two large waves of Greek migration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the ways in which the Greeks have maintained a solid sense of Greek cultural expression. Numbering approximately half a million, the Greek community in Australia comprises the second largest ethnic minority after the Italians. The contribution of Greek settlers to the large industrial cities and other major urban centres modernised them by injecting new ideas into the economic, social and political life of their new environment. The role of Greek settlers has been vital in building the nation we have today.

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