Greece, the Hidden Centuries Quotes

“The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Travayles.”
― David Brewer, Greece, The Hidden Centuries: Turkish Rule from the Fall of Constantinople to Greek Independence

“Another historian, Molly Greene, wearily describes the decline thesis as a meat-grinder, which converts all the facts into the homogenised elements of a single story rather than the distinct indicators of many different stories.”
― David Brewer, Greece, The Hidden Centuries: Turkish Rule from the Fall of Constantinople to Greek Independence

“The expulsion and welcome of the Jews provides a striking contrast between Christian persecution and Muslim tolerance, and in economic terms between western Europe’s short-sightedness and sound Ottoman investment.”
― David Brewer, Greece, The Hidden Centuries: Turkish Rule from the Fall of Constantinople to Greek Independence