Insular Destinies

Perspectives on the history and politics of modern Cyprus
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-08529-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 377 g

Reihe: British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies

In this collection, an eminent authority on the history of political thought and on the intellectual history of modern Hellenism employs his twin academic specializations in political science and in intellectual history to understand the intricacies of the historical experience of his native island. Writing in a perspective inspired by the work of Fernand Braudel, he attempts in a series of studies in cultural and social history to recover lost and overlooked aspects of the collective destinies of Cyprus and the Cypriot diaspora in the centuries of Ottoman rule, a period of critical significance for the survival of the people of the island. He then turns to a penetrating analysis of the politics of the Cyprus Question. The pertinent studies collected in this volume bear the imprint of the deep soul-searching by the younger generation of Cypriot scholars at the time of the tragedy of 1974 over what went so wrong that their country was exposed to foreign invasion, occupation and division. The hints at answers to these questions offered by the author’s interdisciplinary and critical treatment of the subject make this work an indispensable aid to anyone wishing to grasp the deeper antinomies and dilemmas immanent in the Cyprus Question.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kitromilides, Paschalis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Professor Robert Holland

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part One: Culture and Society in a Captive Island

- Cyprus in History

- Early Modern Cypriot Learning: A provisional periodization proposal (1571-1878)

- The Patriotism of the Expatriates

- Repression and Protest in Traditional Society: Cyprus 1764

- The Anonymity of a Prominent Woman in Eighteenth-Century Cyprus

- A Moldovian Connection to the Introduction of the Enlightenment in Cyprus: The contribution of Archbishop Kyprianos (1810-1821)

- Cyprus in 1821: A report to the Levant Company and the Layers of Historical Memory

- Collective Consciousness and Poetry: Three moments in the literary tradition of modern Cyprus

Part Two: The Politics of the Cyprus Question

- From Coexistence to Confrontation: The dynamics of ethnic conflict in Cyprus

- Ethnic Conflict in a Strategic Area: The case of Cyprus

- An Unexplored Case of Political Change: A research note on the electoral history of Cyprus

- Political Community in Plural Societies

- Relevance or Irrelevance of Nationalism? A perspective from the Eastern Mediterranean

- Milestones in the Historiography of the Cyprus Question

Bibliographical and critical notes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paschalis M. Kitromilides, PhD Harvard University, is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Athens and Director of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies. From 2000 to 2011 he was Director of the Institute of Neohellenic Research at the National Hellenic Research Foundation. His recent books in English include: Adamantios Korais and the European Enlightenment (Voltaire Foundation, 2010); Enlightenment and Revolution. The Making of Modern Greece (Harvard University Press, 2013); Enlightenment and religion in the Orthodox world (Voltaire Foundation, 2016).