The texts included are:

- Introduction
- The paternity of the term
- The speech of Ioannis Koletis
- Before and after the speech
- The Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Political correlations and governmental instability
- New realities
- The new generation of people
- The emergence of systematic Historiography
- The emergence of anti-Slavism and the Orthodox Church
- The second phase of the development of commercial shipping, the "beginnings of industrialization", the first public works

At the end of the decade, a weak relationship: The Risorgimento and the Great Idea
- The "other" Great Idea: the borders
- The new problems
- The role of the University
- The effort for the nationalization of the Great Idea
- The relocation of the bones of Gregory V
- The "opposing" voices
- The "Greek-Turkishism"
- The death certificate: Instead of a conclusion