The Greeks and the British in the Levant, 1800-1960s : between empires and nations /

The Greeks and the British in the Levant, 1800-1960s : between empires and nations / edited by Anastasia Yiangou, George Kazamias and Robert Holland.

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"This book explores the concept of 'the Levant' as a component of the regional and international system during the age of imperialism. At its heart is a focus on the experience of Greek-speaking societies and, above all, the independent state of Greece that came into existence in 1830...

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Other Authors: Yiangou, Anastasia (Editor), Kazamias, Giōrgos (Editor), Holland, R. F. (Robert F.) (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
Series:British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine studies ; v. 2.
Subjects:
Imperialism > History.
Social change > Political aspects > History.
Nationalism > History.
Transnationalism > Political aspects > History.
Greece > Relations > Middle East.
Middle East > Relations > Greece.
Great Britain > Relations > Middle East.
Middle East > Relations > Great Britain.
Greece > Relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Relations > Greece.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The Levant : dilemmas of modernity
  • The Levant as a middle ground / John Darwin
  • Why the Levant? / Robert Holland
  • The claim to enter modernity : the Greek national programme in perspective / Evanthis Hatzivassiliou
  • Greece's Westernizers : K. Tsatsos, P. Kanellopoulos and G. Theotokas on Greece's cultural and political orientation / Lykourgos Kourkouvelas
  • Maidens and matrons, ladies and labourers : tradition and innovation in Greek women's lives in the Longue Durée / Helen Angelomatis-Tsougarakis
  • Part II. The Anglo-Hellenic connection
  • Bailed in : strategy, finance and the acquisition of Cyprus, 1878 / Diana Markides
  • Disraeli, "the Key of Western Asia" and the echoes of history in the Levant / Klearchos A. Kyriakides
  • Cyprus' trade with the Levant, 1881-1946/47 / George Kazamias & Maria Panayiotou
  • "The smell of Smyrna ... is neither a Greek nor a Moslem smell" : Toynbee, Greece and the Levant / Richard Clogg
  • The British in the Levant during the 1940s : the experience of Cyprus and the Dodecanese / Anastasia Yiangou
  • "Don't let us spoil the ship for a ha'p'oth of heretics" : identity issues in the British colony of Cyprus : the final settlement / Anastasia Hamatsou
  • Merchants, consuls and intermediary service in the nineteenth century eastern Mediterranean / Maria Christina Chatziioannou
  • Part III. Ambiguous relationships in the Greek Levant
  • The Levant as a vanishing mirage : a tale of three cities / George Th. Mavrogordatos
  • Greater Greece in the early twentieth century : Crete, Cyprus, Constantinople / Michael Llewellyn-Smith
  • Greek policy in the Levant and the "Greek" community of Alexandria, 1947-1961 / Manolis Koumas.

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