The Cyprus Tribute And Geopolitics In The Levant 1875 1960

Author : Diana Markides
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030137779

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The Cyprus Tribute and Geopolitics in the Levant, 1875–1960 by Diana Markides Pdf

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 : DIANA. MARKISDES
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Cyprus
ISBN : 3030137791

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The Cyprus Tribute and Geopolitics in the Levant, 1875--1960 by DIANA. MARKISDES Pdf

Author : Andrekos Varnava
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785275531

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Assassination in Colonial Cyprus in 1934 and the Origins of EOKA by Andrekos Varnava Pdf

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 : Valerie McGuire,Aron Rodrigue
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040092231

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Italian Fascism in Rhodes and the Dodecanese Islands, 1922–44 by Valerie McGuire,Aron Rodrigue Pdf

This book is the first English-language collection of scholarly essays to investigate the ambiguous and supporting role that colonialism in the Aegean Region played in Mussolini’s imperial ambitions, bringing to light a history rarely scrutinized until recently. The Dodecanese archipelago is often absent from histories of Italian fascist colonialism, as Italian territories in East Africa, Libya, and the Balkans have figured more centrally in discussions of how nationalism and later fascism relied on the empire to promote discourses of national renewal and regeneration. Over the past twenty years, a new wave of research has emerged, animated by the opening of previously closed state archives in various countries. This volume’s international contributors provide fresh perspectives on a topic frequently mythologized as a “golden period” of social and cultural intimacy among twentieth-century Greeks, Turks, and Jews. Themes include the fascist adaptation in the islands of Ottoman imperial governance, programs of infrastructure, development, and administration in the Dodecanese, Jewish history and memory in Rhodes, and the place of the islands in larger regional tensions of the interwar period. The volume will be of interest to scholars of Italian history, modern colonialism, fascism, Mediterranean studies, the end of the Ottoman Empire, and Sephardic Jewry.

Author : Michael Stephen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Atrocities
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070840843

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The Cyprus Question by Michael Stephen Pdf

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Author : Kristina Josephson Hesse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Bronsåldern / Palestina / Hazor / sao
ISBN : 9172646357

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Contacts and Trade at Late Bronze Age Hazor by Kristina Josephson Hesse Pdf

Author : William Woodruff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1991-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349122325

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A Concise History of the Modern World by William Woodruff Pdf

This book investigates the major changes in world history and world economy during the past five hundred years and explains to what extent world forces have been responsible for shaping both past and present. Its underlying theme is the struggle for power in which, since the sixteenth century, the West has prevailed. Many of the problems of the contemporary world - including terrorism - are the legacy of the period of Western domination. Until the rise of the West, and its incomparable impact on every branch of human activity, the centre of the world has been in Asia. By the nineteenth century world power was firmly in the hands of the West. America's later rise to world status was prompted by the two world wars. The most prominent of the Western nations, the US is now blamed for all the excesses of an earlier colonial age.

Author : Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla,Patrick K. O'Brien,Francisco Comín Comín
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107013513

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The Rise of Fiscal States by Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla,Patrick K. O'Brien,Francisco Comín Comín Pdf

Leading economic historians present a groundbreaking series of country case studies exploring the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia.

Author : Paschalis M. Kitromilides,Constantinos Tsoukalas
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674259317

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The Greek Revolution by Paschalis M. Kitromilides,Constantinos Tsoukalas Pdf

Winner of the 2022 London Hellenic Prize On the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, an essential guide to the momentous war for independence of the Greeks from the Ottoman Empire. The Greek war for independence (1821–1830) often goes missing from discussion of the Age of Revolutions. Yet the rebellion against Ottoman rule was enormously influential in its time, and its resonances are felt across modern history. The Greeks inspired others to throw off the oppression that developed in the backlash to the French Revolution. And Europeans in general were hardly blind to the sight of Christian subjects toppling Muslim rulers. In this collection of essays, Paschalis Kitromilides and Constantinos Tsoukalas bring together scholars writing on the many facets of the Greek Revolution and placing it squarely within the revolutionary age. An impressive roster of contributors traces the revolution as it unfolded and analyzes its regional and transnational repercussions, including the Romanian and Serbian revolts that spread the spirit of the Greek uprising through the Balkans. The essays also elucidate religious and cultural dimensions of Greek nationalism, including the power of the Orthodox church. One essay looks at the triumph of the idea of a Greek “homeland,” which bound the Greek diaspora—and its financial contributions—to the revolutionary cause. Another essay examines the Ottoman response, involving a series of reforms to the imperial military and allegiance system. Noted scholars cover major figures of the revolution; events as they were interpreted in the press, art, literature, and music; and the impact of intellectual movements such as philhellenism and the Enlightenment. Authoritative and accessible, The Greek Revolution confirms the profound political significance and long-lasting cultural legacies of a pivotal event in world history.

Author : Jürgen Osterhammel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691169804

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The Transformation of the World by Jürgen Osterhammel Pdf

A panoramic global history of the nineteenth century A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jürgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtaking scope and towering erudition. He examines the powerful and complex forces that drove global change during the "long nineteenth century," taking readers from New York to New Delhi, from the Latin American revolutions to the Taiping Rebellion, from the perils and promise of Europe's transatlantic labor markets to the hardships endured by nomadic, tribal peoples across the planet. Osterhammel describes a world increasingly networked by the telegraph, the steamship, and the railways. He explores the changing relationship between human beings and nature, looks at the importance of cities, explains the role slavery and its abolition played in the emergence of new nations, challenges the widely held belief that the nineteenth century witnessed the triumph of the nation-state, and much more. This is the highly anticipated English edition of the spectacularly successful and critically acclaimed German book, which is also being translated into Chinese, Polish, Russian, and French. Indispensable for any historian, The Transformation of the World sheds important new light on this momentous epoch, showing how the nineteenth century paved the way for the global catastrophes of the twentieth century, yet how it also gave rise to pacifism, liberalism, the trade union, and a host of other crucial developments.

Author : David Armitage,Alison Bashford,Sujit Sivasundaram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108423182

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Oceanic Histories by David Armitage,Alison Bashford,Sujit Sivasundaram Pdf

Freshly presents world history through its oceans and seas in uniquely wide-ranging, original chapters by leading experts in their fields.

Author : Mirela Altić,Imre Josef Demhardt,Soetkin Vervust
Publisher : Springer
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319615158

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Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge by Mirela Altić,Imre Josef Demhardt,Soetkin Vervust Pdf

This book gathers 22 papers which were presented at the 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 13–15 October 2016. The overall conference theme was ‘The Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge: Production – Trade – Consumption – Preservation’. The book presents original research by internationally respected authors in the field of historical cartography, offering a significant contribution to the development of this field of study, but also of geography, history and the GIS sciences. The primary target audience includes researchers, educators, postgraduate students, map librarians and archivists.

Author : Richard English
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108470162

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The Cambridge History of Terrorism by Richard English Pdf

An accessible, authoritative history of terrorism, offering systematic analyses of key themes, problems and case studies from terrorism's long past.

Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1939438187

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The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler Pdf

This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in the Dark Ages became converted to Judaism. Khazaria was finally wiped out by the forces of Genghis Khan, but evidence indicates that the Khazars themselves migrated to Poland and formed the cradle of Western Jewry. To the general reader the Khazars, who flourished from the 7th to 11th century, may seem infinitely remote today. Yet they have a close and unexpected bearing on our world, which emerges as Koestler recounts the fascinating history of the ancient Khazar Empire. At about the time that Charlemagne was Emperor in the West. The Khazars' sway extended from the Black Sea to the Caspian, from the Caucasus to the Volga, and they were instrumental in stopping the Muslim onslaught against Byzantium, the eastern jaw of the gigantic pincer movement that in the West swept across northern Africa and into Spain. Thereafter the Khazars found themselves in a precarious position between the two major world powers: the Eastern Roman Empire in Byzantium and the triumphant followers of Mohammed. As Koestler points out, the Khazars were the Third World of their day. They chose a surprising method of resisting both the Western pressure to become Christian and the Eastern to adopt Islam. Rejecting both, they converted to Judaism. Mr Koestler speculates about the ultimate faith of the Khazars and their impact on the racial composition and social heritage of modern Jewry. He produces a large body of meticulously detailed research.

Author : Michelle Tusan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520289567

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Smyrna's Ashes by Michelle Tusan Pdf

“Set against one of the most horrible atrocities of the early twentieth century, the ethnic cleansing of Western Anatolia and the burning of the city of Izmir, Smyrna’s Ashes is an important contribution to our understanding of how humanitarian thinking shaped British foreign and military policy in the Late Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean. Based on rigorous archival research and scholarship, well written, and compelling, it is a welcome addition to the growing literature on humanitarianism and the history of human rights.”—Keith David Watenpaugh, University of California, Davis “Traces an important but neglected strand in the history of British humanitarianism, showing how its efforts to aid Ottoman Christians were inextricably enmeshed in imperial and cultural agendas and helped to contribute to the creation of the modern Middle East.”—Dane Kennedy, The George Washington University “Tusan shows vividly and compassionately how Britain’s attempt to build a ‘Near East’ in its own image upon the ruins of the Ottoman Empire served as prelude to today’s Middle East of nation-states.”—Peter Mandler, University of Cambridge “An original and meticulously researched contribution to our understandings of British imperial, gender, and cultural history. Smyrna’s Ashes demonstrates the long-standing influence of Middle Eastern issues on British self-identification. Tusan’s conclusions will engage scholars in a variety of fields for years to come.”—Nancy L. Stockdale, University of North Texas