British Colonial Architecture in Cyprus
Author: Costas Georghiou
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9789963691838
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Costas Georghiou
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9789963691838
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Costas Georghiou
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9789963691845
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kenneth W. Schaar
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9789963420490
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Rupert Gunnis
Publisher:
Published: 2014-07
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9780954452391
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rupert Gunnis is one of the founding fathers of Cypriot historiography. Whilst working as an administrator in the British Colonial Government of Cyprus in the 1930s he visited every town and city on the island, recording its interesting historic buildings and sites. In this facsimile of 1936 edition of the resulting book, not only do we gain a snapshot of a Cyprus that has now long gone, but find a text that is still surprisingly useable as a guide to the material culture of Cyprus.
Author: Reyhan Sabri
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-07-15
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 3030182320
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book documents the changing role of the Islamic Waqf institution in Cyprus and the conservation of Waqf heritage buildings of Ottoman and Western origins. Previously ignored archives of documents detailing the conservation of Waqf buildings during Ottoman and British rule allow a fine-grained analysis of the colonial introduction of Western approaches to heritage conservation. Colonial rule saw major legislative and administrative changes to the originally autonomous Ottoman Waqf institution, which had already been subject to reforms under the Ottoman regime. Under British rule, Western heritage concepts and modern architectural conservation discourses became the core conservation principles in Cyprus. Earlier centralisation attempts during the Ottoman Tanzimat (1831-1876), and the procedural, technical, and political reconfigurations during the British colonial era in Cyprus (1878-1960), were key factors of the transformation of the Waqf’s traditional building upkeep system. These imperial interventions, their orientalist mindset, and the rise of nationalism, finally led to the erosion of Waqf in Cyprus as a non-Western and sustainable form of building conservation. This study reveals how the Western approach, the forms of expertise it privileges, and pragmatic diversions from this practice for political purposes, were useful in neutralizing the legitimacy of local practices, except in cases where opportunistic ‘recognition’ of their utility played a role in inter-communal, colonial, nationalist, and inter-imperial politics.
Author: Michael J. K. Walsh
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-01-04
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 900439768X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Famagusta Maritima: Mariners, Merchants, Pilgrims and Mercenaries presents a collection of scholarly studies spanning the thousand year history of the port of Famagusta in Cyprus.
Author: Diana Markides
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-04-03
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 3030137775
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the history of the Cyprus Tribute, and takes a longer and broader view of the issue than previous studies. It analyses the regional context of the decision to use revenue surpluses for the repayment of debt within the framework of the Eastern Question and Ottoman bankruptcy. We see that the island was always strategically and financially overshadowed by Egypt. Scrutinising political developments in Cyprus through the prism of the tribute issue facilitates a better understanding of its considerable effect on them. The absence of any imperial role for Cyprus as a 'place d’armes’ meant that there was no imperial interest in funding the infrastructural development of the island. British policy was treasury-driven. Diana Markides analyses why it failed, and how its failure resulted in the local colonial government having to impose a deeply unpopular fiscal policy, for which there was no adequate explanation. She examines the extent to which local resistance to this policy affected not only constitutional development on the island and Anglo-Cypriot relations, but the nature of the relations between the two major communities.
Author: Andrekos Varnava
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2021-01-11
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1785275534
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the assassination of Antonios Triantafyllides, a leading Cypriot lawyer and politician, in British colonial Cyprus in January 1934. This event has been the infamous subject of rumours since its occurrence and a taboo subject for Cypriot society and historians alike, as the event has been silenced or dismissed. This book explores the assassination in its broadest possible context by situating it within the broader events within the British Empire, the region and the world more generally at that time. The basis for the exploration is a ‘community of records’ through which all the evidence is sifted, reading it both with and against the grain, in order to provide the most likely answer to who was really behind this mysterious cold case. Through rigorous analysis, this book concludes that those who most likely masterminded the assassination supported radical right-wing extremist pro-enosis nationalism and were subsequently also prominent in forming the EOKA terrorist group in the 1950s.
Author: Serkan Karas
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2021-10
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781527572072
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the colonial history of Cyprus through the history of technology. Based on materialist and actor-network approaches to power, it unfolds the role of technology in the formation of British colonial rule during critical episodes in Cyprus. It considers the entanglement of colonial rule and technology in four cases of infrastructural development: the island-wide electrification project, Famagusta and Larnaca Harbours, and the Cyprus Government Railway. Throughout these cases, the reader will discover the expert-based, developmentalist and material ways of governing crises with which the British Empire expected to reproduce and prolong its rule on the island.
Author: Susan Lawrence
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0415217008
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Archaeologists have had an abiding interest in the rise and fall of state-level societies. Now they are turning their attention to the British Empire.