Insular Destinies : Perspectives on the History and Politics of Modern Cyprus

by: Kitromilides, P.M.

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.

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

Insular Destinies : Perspectives on the History and Politics of Modern Cyprus

by: Kitromilides, P.M.

• ISBN-13: 9781032085296 / 978-1-03-208529-6
• ISBN-03: 1032085290 / 1-03-208529-0
• Routledge, London, 2021