Colonial Cyprus: A Cultural History

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An original, innovative and timely study on the cultural history of Cyprus under British rule, offering a new interpretative framework for studying the colonial past of Cyprus. The book focuses on the cultural dimension of the islands colonial experience and demonstrates the crucial, but in this case understudied, significance of culture in Cyprus and how this has affected the current identity of the island. It is the first volume to address different aspects of the islands cultural life from 1878, when the island changed hands from Ottoman to British rule, to 1960 when the Republic of Cyprus came into existence. The book presents a comprehensive survey of culture in colonial Cyprus, covering such aspects as photography, architecture, literature, art, cultural policy, advertisement, fashion, antiquities and archaeology, public gardens, environmental commons, and sports clubs. Individual chapters bring to light previously unpublished source material in Greek and English, written and visual, from state and private archives and collections. Using cross-disciplinary analytical tools - from the fields of imperial and colonial history, politics, cultural studies, media studies, communication studies and history this book provides much needed insight into the multi-faceted cultural life of colonial Cyprus.

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Maria Hadjiathanasiou is Horizon 2020 (MSCA Widening) Fellow in the Department of Politics & Governance of the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. Her book Propaganda and the Cyprus Revolt: Rebellion, Counter-Insurgency and the Media, 1955-59 (Bloomsbury, 2020). Andreas Karyos has been teaching the modern history of Cyprus in various academic institutions since 2009. He has been working as a Scientific Collaborator and Curator for the National Struggle Museum in Nicosia, which exhibits on colonial Cyprus and the insurgency/counter-insurgency campaigns, 1955-59. Emilios A. Solomou is Director of the UNESCO Chair of the University of Nicosia, Cyprus and President of the Cyprus Society of Historical Studies. He has co-edited the two-volume work Colonial Cyprus 1878-1960 (2010) and Independent Cyprus 1960-2010 (2011).