Protectorate Cyprus
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-15472-8 (ISBN)
Gail Ruth Hook completed her PhD in British and Imperial History at the University of Texas where she was supervised by Wm. Roger Louis. She is teaching at George Mason University.
List of Figures
INTRODUCTION
THEME I: “a duty to protect and improve”
Chapter One: British informal influence in Ottoman Cyprus
Strategy and the “good government” argument
British consuls in Cyprus before 1878
Chapter Two: Britons and Cyprus in 1878
Cyprus in the British imagination
Photographers
Visions of wealth
Cyprus and the British Museum
Chapter Three: The beginnings of British Cyprus
Sir Garnet Wolseley, first High Commissioner of Cyprus
Wolseley’s men
Chapter Four: The foundations of “good government”
Representative government and the court system
The reform of the Zaptiehs
Public works and the problem of the tribute
Imperial maps and land tenure
Chapter Five: Governing the plural society
Defining the plural society on Cyprus
The plural society after 1878
Politics in Turkish and Greek schools
THEME II: “A RICH REWARD TO CAPITALISTS AND LABOUR”
Chapter Six: Revenue for the Empire
Commerce and trade before 1878
The colonies as Imperial resource: Commerce and trade after 1878
The Cyprus wine trade
Chapter Seven: Sanitation, reforestation, and colonial science
Sanitation and the problem of disease
The problems of locusts and goats
Reforestation and the botanical experts
Chapter Eight: Cyprus as Imperial Estate
Cyprus development and Colonial Office cooperation
Walter Sendall and Cyprus development
THEME III: THE MANTLE OF BRITISHNESS
Chapter Nine: Britishness in Cyprus
Britishness in Ottoman Cyprus
British women in Cyprus
Religion, missions, and social progress
Erscheinungsdatum | 16.09.2019 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 135 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 445 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-15472-5 / 1350154725 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-15472-8 / 9781350154728 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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