John Anthony Petropulos, usually abbreviated to John A.
Petropulos, was a Greek American historian.
He was born in 1929 in Lewiston, Maine, from Greek immigrants.
In 1951, he graduated from Yale.
He received his PhD from Harvard in 1963.
He taught Mediterranean and Balkan history in Amherst.
He died in his office on May 3, 1999, allegedly while correcting student papers.His most influential work is Politics and Statecraft in the Kingdom of Greece, 1833–1843, published by Princeton University Press in 1968.
It is regarded as a detailed analysis of the political parties of the period.
Petropulos argued that the parties influenced state institutions as well as the structure of the state.
The Greek translation has been edited by Nikiforos Diamandouros.