Author: Samuel White BakerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879
Author: Samuel White BakerBritish imperialism in Cyprus, 1878–1915
Author: Andrekos VarnavaPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526118734
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This book explores the tensions underlying British imperialism in Cyprus. Much has been written about the British Empire’s construction outside Europe, yet there is little on the same themes in Britain’s tiny empire in ‘Europe’. This study follows Cyprus’ progress from a perceived imperial asset to an expendable backwater by explaining how the Union Jack came to fly over the island and why after thirty-five years the British wanted it lowered. Cyprus’ importance was always more imagined than real and was enmeshed within widely held cultural signifiers and myths. British Imperialism in Cyprus fills a gap in the existing literature on the early British period in Cyprus and challenges the received and monolithic view that British imperial policy was based primarily or exclusively on strategic-military considerations. The combination of archival research, cultural analysis and visual narrative that makes for an enjoyable read for academics and students of Imperial, British and European history.
Excerpta cypria
Author: Claude Delaval CobhamPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5875320966
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
Cyprus
Author: Marc DubinPublisher: Rough Guides
ISBN: 9781858288635
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Covering both the North and the South of Cyprus with equal detail and objectivity, this guide includes features on the island's turbulent history and current politics. It provides accounts of the island's attractions, from the popular beach resorts to the remote hillside villages, and reviews of the best places to eat, drink and sleep for every budget.
A History of Cyprus
Author: George HillPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108020658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
A rich, varied history of conquerors and colonizers which recognizes the centrality of Cyprus to the Mediterranean world.
Protectorate Cyprus
Author: Gail Dallas HookPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 178673950X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A strategic outpost in the Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus was vital to British imperial ambitions in the East as the Ottoman Empire grew increasingly fragile in the nineteenth century. Here, Gail Dallas Hook describes the British occupation of Cyprus from 1878 to 1914, during which British government, science, and capital investment were installed alongside a new British colonial community, building 'British Cyprus' long before the island became a formal part of the British Empire. Protectorate Cyprus further demonstrates how the British attempted to bring 'good government' to Cyprus yet failed to resolve the issues of Muslim and Greek Orthodox divisions. It is a unique representation of Britain's 'informal empire' before World War I that has been little studied. Protectorate Cyprus is a crucial addition to the history of the British Empire.
Notes and Queries
Author: The Political Museum
Author: Theopisti Stylianou-LambertPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315521032
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
This engaging volume reveals how politics permeates all facets of museum practice, particularly in regions of political conflict. In these settings, museums can be extraordinarily influential for shaping identity and collective memory and for peace building. Using key Cypriote archaeological, historical, ethnographic, and art museums as examples, this book: provides a multifaceted and deeper understanding of how politics, conflict, national agendas, and individual initiatives can shape museums and their narratives; discusses how these forces contribute to the creation of, and conflict over, national, community and personal identities; examines how museums use inclusion and exclusion in their collections, exhibitions, objects and interpretive material as a way of selectively constructing collective memories. This book will be an important resource for museum professionals, as well as scholars interested in the effects of politics on museums and interpretations of the past.
Colonial and Postcolonial Cyprus
Author: Daniele NunziataPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030582361
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This book analyses colonial and postcolonial writing about Cyprus, before and after its independence from the British Empire in 1960. These works are understood as ‘transportal literatures’ in that they navigate the liminal and layered forms of colonialism which impede the freedom of the island, including the residues of British imperialism, the impact of Greek and Turkish nationalisms, and the ethnolinguistic border between north and south. This study puts pressure on the postcolonial discipline by evaluating the unique hegemonic relationship Cyprus has with three metropolitan centres, not one. The print languages associated with each centre (English, Greek, and Turkish) are complicit in neo-colonial activity. Contemporary Cypriot writers address this in order to resist sectarian division and grapple with their deferred postcoloniality.
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