The course focuses on the interrelationships between the State, through its mechanisms and their agencies that produce and implement policies, and the people (either individually or as a group) who are the recipients of these policies, who are subjected to them, who make use of them or who face them. Running through the 19th and 20th centuries, it converses with individual themes of Greek historiography. Through various case studies, and at a distance from the institutional history of the State, it attempts to highlight the multiple relations of interaction between the State and the subjects, and their multiple changes over time.