Leda Papastefanaki, Η φλέβα της γης: Τα μεταλλεία της Ελλάδας, 19ος–20ός αιώνας [The vein of the earth: The mines of Greece, 19th–20th centuries]


Published: Jul 6, 2021
Keywords:
Greek economic history labour history mining
Christos Karampatsos
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Abstract

Review of Leda Papastefanaki. Η φλέβα της γης: Τα μεταλλεία της Ελλάδας, 19ος–20ός αιώνας [The vein of the earth: The mines of Greece, 19th–20th centuries]. Athens: Vivliorama, 2017. 392 pp.

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Author Biography
Christos Karampatsos, Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Crete.

Christos Karampatsos is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Crete, working on a project that focuses on the history of petroleum exploration in Greece. He also teaches courses on the history of technology at the University of Western Attica. He is a graduate of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens and worked for a decade as an engineer before moving on to receive an MA and a PhD (2016) in the graduate programme in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, offered jointly by the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the National Technical University of Athens. His doctoral dissertation covered social and labour aspects of the introduction of new machinery in Greece during the first half of the twentieth century. His research focuses on the history of technology as well as social, labor and environmental history. His work has been published in various Greek and international scientific journals.