Dimitris Keridis is Professor of International Relations at the Panteion University in Athens, Greece, and has been a member of the Greek Parliament since 2019. He has written widely on foreign policy, particularly on the Balkans and on modern Greek history.

John Brady Kiesling is an archaeologist and former U.S. diplomat, whose work includes Greek Urban Warriors (2014), Diplomacy Lessons (2007), the ToposText application, and various edited works on Greek history.

Introduction; Part 1: Searching for Identity; 1. Towards a History of Thessaloniki's Future; 2. Thessaloniki and the Cities of the Enlightenment; 3. Was Salonica a Levantine City?; 4. The Place of Thessaloniki In Greek National Awareness: From Greek Independence to 1912 and beyond; 5. Salonica through Bulgarian Eyes; 6. The Municipality of Salonica between Old Regime, Ottoman Reforms and the Transition from Empire To Nation State; 7. Amateur and Professional Theater in Ottoman Thessaloniki: Multicultural Identity and Its Implications; 8. A New Look at an Ancient City: Thessaloniki in Ottoman Archaeology, 1832-1912; 9. Urban Transformation and the Revolution: Salonica and the Young Turks, 1908-1912; 10. Bulgarian Newspapers in Thessaloniki, 1869-1913; Part 2: A City in Transition; 11. The Boundaries of Hellenism: Language and Loyalty Among Salonican Jewry, 1917-1933; 12. In the Aftermath of the Balkan Wars: The Incorporation of Thessaloniki in the Greek State; 13. Refugee Resettlement 1922-24. A Watershed in the Ethnic, Social and Economic Transformation of Thessaloniki; 14. Integration through the Past: Jewish Scholars Write History in Inter-War Salonica; 15. Destruction and Reconstruction of Thessaloniki's Class Structure, 1912-1940; 16. From the Call Of the Muezzin To the Silence of the Museum: Salonica Soundscapes in Transition; Part 3: Mapping the Future of Thessaloniki; 17. The Muslims of Thessaloniki (1912-2012): A Discontinuous and Uncomfortable Presence; 18.Urban Change and the Persistence of Memory in Modern Thessaloniki; 19. French Interests and Salonika's Port, 1872-1912: Entrepreneurial and Architectural Innovation; 20. The Post-War Transformation of the Thessaloniki Periphery: Urbanization and Landscape; 21. Land Policy in Thessaloniki and the Transition to a Contemporary Metropolitan Area, 1922-1967; 22. The Care of Monuments in Modern Thessaloniki: Perceptions and Practices; 23. A Past for Every Possible Future: Concluding Remarks