ISBN:
9781498582032
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (341 pages)
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DDC:
306.0973
Keywords:
Politics and culture-United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This study examines British rule in Cyprus from 1878 to 1954. The author analyzes the cultural and religious dimensions of Cypriot responses to British rule and the ways in which Greek Orthodox culture was a primary conduit for resistance to the colonial system.
Abstract:
Cover -- Cyprus under British Colonial Rule -- Cyprus under British Colonial Rule -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- In the Shadow of the Greek Revolution and the Great Idea -- Cyprus and the Greek Revolution -- The Great Idea: Liberating the Unredeemed Brethren -- From the 1897 Defeat, to the Balkan Wars, to the Asia Minor Catastrophe -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- British Rule -- Sir Garnet Wolseley: The First High Commissioner -- The Majority-Minority Challenge -- British Ambivalence -- Greek Enthusiasm and Ambivalence -- Schools: Beehives of the Hellenic Ideal -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- City and Countryside -- Nicosia: The Capital with Rural Ambiance -- The Peasant Community -- The Peasant Society: Links to Markets and Peasant Debt -- The Bishop: The Local Ethnarch -- Notes -- Chapter 4 -- A Greek Orthodox Culture -- The Agriculturalist Church -- Christ as a Source of Social Justice -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- The Multiple Functions of the Panigyri -- The Commercial Panigyri -- The Cultural Panigyri -- Notes -- Chapter 6 -- Folk Poets -- United in Poverty -- Folk Poems: Characteristics -- Sources of Learning and Knowledge -- Folk Poets: Symbols of Coexistence -- Notes -- Chapter 7 -- The Idol of the Tribe -- Folk Poems: Longing for the Mother's Bosom -- Political Soteriology: The Doctrine of Salvation -- Notes -- Chapter 8 -- Toward Rebellion -- Prelude to Rebellion -- The October 21, 1931 Rebellion -- Notes -- Chapter 9 -- World War II and Its Aftermath -- Solidarity to Greece's Suffering -- High Expectations -- Enter the Left: AKEL -- With Lenin in the Church -- Pavlos Liasides: The Class Poet, Believer in Christ -- Notes -- Chapter 10 -- The Emergence of Ethnarch Makarios III and the 1950 Plebiscite -- Church-Government Minuets (1933-1947) -- The Intricacies in Electing the Kition Bishop (April 1947).
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