The macroeconomic development of south-eastern Europe has been profoundly affected not only by the region s major historical events for example, liberation from the Ottoman Empire, the outbreak of civil wars, and the birth of new nations but also by global events, such as the world-wide conflicts of the twentieth century, and the recent transnational processes of globalisation and European integration. The rationale of this book is to employ a comprehensive micro-history that is, the history of one particular community: in this case, the village of Tsamantas, in north-western Greece as a...