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This compelling book chronicles the challenges faced by Anatolia College, whose rich history provides a unique window on the American missionary movement, the Armenian genocides, the Greek-Turkish conflict, and two world wars from the prism of the survival and growth of an American college caught in near-perpetual upheaval.
Sommario
Foreword by John H. Clymer
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction by John O. Iatrides
Chapter One: The American Missionary Movement in Turkey and the Founding of Anatolia College (1810-1886)
Chapter Two: Identity and Survival: Anatolia's First Decade (1886-1895)
Chapter Three: Anatolia's Flowering in Turkey: An International Christian College (1896-1914)
Chapter Four: The Great War and Its Aftermath: Tragedies and Transitions (1914-1923)
Chapter Five: New Beginnings in Thessaloniki, Greece (1923-1924)
Chapter Six: Rebuilding Anatolia in Greece: The Interwar Years (1924-1940)
Chapter Seven: Anatolia's Third Wartime Interruption (1940-1945)
Chapter Eight: Anatolia Renewed: From Civil War to a Brighter Era (1945-1958)
Chapter Nine: Through Prosperity and Dictatorship (1958-1974)
Chapter Ten: Fighting for Identity and Ideals (1974-1999)
Chapter Eleven: Anatolia Returns to Higher Education (1981-1999)
Epilogue (1999-2014)
Appendix A Major Anatolia College Dates
Appendix B Anatolia College Hymn
Selected Bibliography
Index
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William McGrew was president of Anatolia College from 1974 to 1999, and subsequently of the American Farm School, also in Thessaloniki, from 2005 to 2009. Earlier he served as a U.S. diplomat with assignments in Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus. McGrew holds a PhD in Greek and Modern European History. His previous publications include Land and Revolution in Modern Greece, 1800-1881.
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This compelling book chronicles the challenges faced by Anatolia College, whose rich history provides a unique window on the American missionary movement, the Armenian genocides, the Greek-Turkish conflict, and two world wars from the prism of the survival and growth of an American college caught in near-perpetual upheaval.
