Η εισαγωγή της στρατιωτικής αεροπορικής τεχνολογίας στην Ελλάδα: 1912-1940 ; The introduction of military aviation technology in Greece: 1912-1940

The First Part of the treatise comprising of the first two chapters serves as an theoretical introduction. Its purpose is to acquaint the reader to the basic discussion pertaining to the historiography of the history of technology (including the history of military technology), of military history and aviation history. The mutual interdependences between the sub disciplines of history of technology and military history are explored in the first chapter. The special characteristics of aviation historiography are given their due in the second chapter. The Second Part comprising of the third chapter pertains to the introduction of military technology in Greece from the advent of industrial military technologies in mid 19th Century to the end of the interwar years. The subject of Part Three (chapter 4) is the pioneering introduction of Aviation technology in the Balkans during the second decade of the 20th Century via a comparative perspective. Part Four is intended as an anti-mythological approach to the introduction of military aviation technology in Greece. The next chapters focus on the interplay between the manifold aviation technological innovations and the peculiar Greek context. During World War I and the Asia Minor Campaign similar aviation technology was utilized, and so it is scrutinized in the same chapter Number 5. The subject of the sixth chapter is the establishment of the Greek Aviation Ministry (1929) and the consequences of this formative act to the advancement of technological change. The forced aviation re-armament program of the mid thirties that led to an avalanche of technical innovations that were hastily introduced into service, forms the subject of the seventh and final chapter. One of the primary goals of this treatise was to contribute to the serious study of aviation history in Greece, a subject hitherto completely neglected. The few and qualifiedly uneven works on aviation history in Greece, do not take into account the vast fount of specialized foreign bibliography. Another goal was to ...