- Department of History, 0104
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0104 - (campus office) 858-534-9597
Thomas Gallant
University of California, San Diego, History, Faculty Member
- Ottoman History, Social History, Banditry, Rural History, Mediterranean archaeology, Historical Anthropology, and 116 moreHistorical Archaeology, History of the Mediterranean, HISTORY OF CRIME AND LAW, Dueling and Codes of Honor, Violence, Modern Greek History, Ottoman House, Ottoman Balkans, Greek Archaeology, Archaeological survey, Archaeological Method & Theory, Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Olive and Olive Oil Technology, Settlement archaeology, Ottoman Studies, Ottoman Archaeology, Byzantine Archaeology, History of Piracy, Mediterranean and North Africa, Mediterranean Studies, Greek lands during Ottoman rule, Archaeological GIS, Ionian Islands, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA), Borders and Frontiers, Conversion to Islam in the Ottoman Empire, 18th & 19th Centuries, Archaeological Graphics & Illustration, Settlement Patterns, Agricultural History, Modern and Contemporary Greek History, Historical Demography, GIS and Landscape Archaeology, Medieval ceramics (Archaeology), Environmental Archaeology, Ute Frevert, Balkan archaeology, Criminal Justice History, History of the Family, Colonialism, Imperialism, Empire, History, Cultural History, European History, Maritime History, Trade Routes, Mediterranean, Ports, Port cities, Islands, Insularity, Seafarers, Consumption and Material Culture, Interconfessional Relations in the Ottoman Empire, Archaeological Science, Classical Archaeology, Funerary Archaeology, Death and Burial (Archaeology), Material Culture Studies, Geoarchaeology, Zooarchaeology, Venetian Greece, Crete during the Venetian Rule, Ceramics and medieval rural settlements (Archaeology), Medieval and Post Medieval Pottery In the Mediterranean, Post medieval pottery, Post-Medieval Archaeology, Ottoman Selanik (Thessaloniki), Ottoman Greece, Ottoman Empire, Constantinople, History of Istanbul, Balkan Studies, South East European Studies, Balkan History, Modern Greek Politics, Modern Greek Studies, Greek History, Greece, Comparative History, Global History, Transnational and World History, Archéology, Archaeology, Corsairs, Ottoman Navy, 16th Century Eastern Mediterranean, History of the Eastern Mediterranean, Modern Europe and the Middle East, European Imperialism and Colonialism, Greek Pottery, Islamic pottery, Pottery technology and function, Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology, Pottery kilns, Early Modern Pottery, Ottoman Pottery, Medieval Archaeology In the Mediterranean, Byzantine Glazed Wares, Medieval and Post-Medieval Pottery, Ottoman economic, social and military history, Ottoman Military History, Ottoman Janissaries, Devshirme, Ottoman Greeks, Archaeology of Farmsteads, Re-imagining Democracy In the Mediterranean Between 1750 and 1860, Palaeoclimatology, Landscape Archaeology, Ethnohistory, Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology, Corfu, Κέρκυρα, and The Greek War of Independenceedit
- Thomas W. Gallant holds the Nicholas Family Endowed Chair in Modern Greek History and is Distinguished Professor of H... moreThomas W. Gallant holds the Nicholas Family Endowed Chair in Modern Greek History and is Distinguished Professor of History and Archaeology in the History Department and the Center for Hellenic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He received his PhD from Cambridge University in Classical Archaeology and has been a professor at universities in the US and Canada. He is the author of twelve books and over 50 articlesedit
This fascinating collection of essays examines “Greek genius” from various angles and interpretive stances. The concept is rooted in two stereotypes: the resourceful and clever Odysseus from Homer’s epics and the deceitful Sinon from... more
This fascinating collection of essays examines “Greek genius” from various angles and interpretive stances. The concept is rooted in two stereotypes: the resourceful and clever Odysseus from Homer’s epics and the deceitful Sinon from Virgil’s works. Collectively, the essays argue that the Greek genius is closely tied to economic success, with shipping and commerce playing a crucial role in spreading Enlightenment ideas and fostering political emancipation in Greek lands. The argument suggests a reciprocal relationship between economic success and education, with each reinforcing the other.
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The reforms of Solon have been a source of debate for many years now. The number of articles, chapters, and books written about them is legion. The justification for the present attempt is that it approaches the problem from a slightly... more
The reforms of Solon have been a source of debate for many years now. The number of articles, chapters, and books written about them is legion. The justification for the present attempt is that it approaches the problem from a slightly different angle. The overriding aims of this paper are: (a) to elucidate what the agricultural system was in this period and to demonstrate that it did not ‘change with glacial slowness’ and that farmers were not incapable of increasing production; (b) to propose the adoption of a slightly different theoretical framework for analysing the culture of Greece in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C. Here, as in so many studies of archaic economies, the main schools of thought are the formalists and the substantivists; the formalists can be further broken down into the capitalists and the Marxists (see below p. 119). Proponents of both sides use predominantly, though not exclusively, analogies derived from Medieval Europe; this, as I shall argue shortly, has led to some serious misunderstandings. Feudal Europe was the culmination of a long development which was very different from that which preceded archaic Greece. Although it is possible to see some resemblances, on the whole they were two distinct cultures.
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Covers the history of Greece and the Greeks, over the years. This title combines political history with social and cultural history to tell the story of the Greek people.
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Syllabus to my fourth-seminar on Mediterranean Environmental history.
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The development of programs devoted to Modern Greek and Hellenic Studies is a more recent phenomenon in Canada than in the United States. In addition to being younger, the programs in Canada are located in social, political and... more
The development of programs devoted to Modern Greek and Hellenic Studies is a more recent phenomenon in Canada than in the United States. In addition to being younger, the programs in Canada are located in social, political and institutional situations that present them with some opportunities and challenges that differ from those facing US programs. They also confront some of the same dilemmas as colleagues elsewhere as these are common to academia in North America. Because there are fewer MGHS programs in Canada, the possibilities for higher levels of inter-program co-operation and co-ordination are greater. In the ways that the directors and chairs of programs in Canada are addressing the manifold challenges and opportunities gives grounds for cautious optimism regarding the current state and future development of Modern Greek and Hellenic Studies in Canada.
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To study the phenomenon of revolution meaningfully in a cross-cultural context, scholars need frameworks of analysis that allow them to compare and contrast specific revolutions and to identify the factors that explain why certain... more
To study the phenomenon of revolution meaningfully in a cross-cultural context, scholars need frameworks of analysis that allow them to compare and contrast specific revolutions and to identify the factors that explain why certain sociopolitical systems are prone to rebellions and others are not. This article puts forth one such framework focusing on pre- and postrevolutionary violence. Revolution is a violent act and requires men and women who are ready, willing and able to perpetrate violence on behalf of a cause. The model proposes two ideal-type regimes of violence and suggests that some regimes are more violent-prone than others and that those regimes are also more susceptible to revolution. It suggests further that state-building after revolutions entails a process of reforming the regime of violence. The article ends by examining the case of Greece and the Ottoman empire over the long nineteenth century, showing how the models help us to better understand revolutionary and po...
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Gallant, Thomas W. (2018) Social history and historical archaeology in Greece: the Kefalonia and Andros Project, 2010-2014. In Reframing classical archaeology in Greece: Festschrift for Anthony M. Snodgrass, (Eds, Lisa Nevett & James... more
Gallant, Thomas W. (2018) Social history and historical archaeology in Greece: the Kefalonia and Andros Project, 2010-2014. In Reframing classical archaeology in Greece: Festschrift for Anthony M. Snodgrass, (Eds, Lisa Nevett & James Whitely) The McDonald Institute for Archaeology, Cambridge, pp. 1-20. The volume is now out.
Research Interests: Historical Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Environmental History, Archaeological GIS, Modern Greece, and 8 moreOttoman Balkans, Social History, Agrarian History, Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Archaeological survey, Ionian Islands, Ionian Island history 18-19C, and Aegean Islands under Ottoman Sovereignty
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The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1768-1913. The Long Nineteenth Century is now available for purchase.
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... Notwithstanding this criticism, and despite the fact that these volumes have been preceded by a collection of F.'s work on the Roman army and navy (M. Spiedel (ed.) Esercito e marina di Roma antica: Raccolta di contributi... more
... Notwithstanding this criticism, and despite the fact that these volumes have been preceded by a collection of F.'s work on the Roman army and navy (M. Spiedel (ed.) Esercito e marina di Roma antica: Raccolta di contributi (Serie Mavors, V, Stuttgart 1992), and are to be ...
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... Combined these determine a society's vulnerability to a given hazard or level of risk (Timmerman 1981, 17-36). An increase in the level of risk or a detrimental change in the web of coping mechanisms... more
... Combined these determine a society's vulnerability to a given hazard or level of risk (Timmerman 1981, 17-36). An increase in the level of risk or a detrimental change in the web of coping mechanisms would alter a society's ability to manage successfully a subsistence crisis. ...