Imperial Control in Cyprus
Education and Political Manipulation in the British Empire
Seiten
2017
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78453-952-8 (ISBN)
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78453-952-8 (ISBN)
Scholarly study of the use of education as a tool of imperial control in British Protectorate Cyprus
In Protectorate Cyprus, education was one of the most effective tools of imperial control and political manipulation used by the British. This book charts the cultural and educational aspects of British colonial rule in Cyprus and analyses what these policies reveal about the internal struggles on the island between 1931 and 1960. Cyprus had been under British occupation since 1878, but it was in the 1930s that educational policies acquired a strong political significance and became essential in preserving the British position on the island. The co-existence of two very strongly-held and eventually conflicting national identities in Cyprus, Greek-Orthodox and Turkish Muslim, inevitably led to the politicisation of education and culture on the island. Therefore, any attempts to impose British culture, language and way of thinking onto Cypriots, or even to create a distinct Cypriot identity, had very limited success. Gradually, the education system reflected the shifting political developments in colonial Cyprus. By the start of the 1950s, schools had become a breeding ground for discontent and between 1955 and 1959 they were an indispensable part of the EOKA revolt.
In this book, Antigone Heraclidou provides a new dimension to the understanding and origins of the deadlock that was to prove one of the most intractable in the final years of the British Empire.
In Protectorate Cyprus, education was one of the most effective tools of imperial control and political manipulation used by the British. This book charts the cultural and educational aspects of British colonial rule in Cyprus and analyses what these policies reveal about the internal struggles on the island between 1931 and 1960. Cyprus had been under British occupation since 1878, but it was in the 1930s that educational policies acquired a strong political significance and became essential in preserving the British position on the island. The co-existence of two very strongly-held and eventually conflicting national identities in Cyprus, Greek-Orthodox and Turkish Muslim, inevitably led to the politicisation of education and culture on the island. Therefore, any attempts to impose British culture, language and way of thinking onto Cypriots, or even to create a distinct Cypriot identity, had very limited success. Gradually, the education system reflected the shifting political developments in colonial Cyprus. By the start of the 1950s, schools had become a breeding ground for discontent and between 1955 and 1959 they were an indispensable part of the EOKA revolt.
In this book, Antigone Heraclidou provides a new dimension to the understanding and origins of the deadlock that was to prove one of the most intractable in the final years of the British Empire.
Antigone Heraclidou is Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Cyprus and the European University, Cyprus. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Laissez-faire or dehellenization? Education in British Cyprus, 1878-1931
Chapter 2 - Making a British Atmosphere in Cyprus, 1931-35
Chapter 3 - Towards the end of ‘Palmerocracy’: British educational policy in Cyprus, 1936-3
Chapter 4 - Education and politics in wartime Cyprus, 1940-45
Chapter 5 - Education, enosis and the revival of politics in post-war Cyprus, 1945-50
Chapter 6 - Education policy and the path to insurgency
Chapter 7 - Schools in uproar: The EOKA revolt and the end of British rule in Cyprus
Conclusion
Erscheinungsdatum | 30.09.2017 |
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Zusatzinfo | 11 bw in 8pp plates |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 561 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78453-952-X / 178453952X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78453-952-8 / 9781784539528 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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