Colonial Cyprus

Maria Hadjiathanasiou is Adjunct Faculty at the University of Nicosia and Research Fellow at the National Struggle Museum. She is the author of Propaganda and the Cyprus Revolt: Rebellion, Counter-Insurgency and the Media, 1955-1959 (Bloomsbury, 2020). Andreas Karyos is Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Nicosia and the Open University of Cyprus. His research interests focus on military and political aspects of Cyprus’ colonial history, decolonisation and post-independence history. Emilios A. Solomou is Emeritus Scholar and Honorary Director of the UNESCO Chair on Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Dialogue for a Culture of Peace at the University of Nicosia. He is the President of the Cyprus Society of Historical Studies.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPrefaceForewordAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. Excavating at Amathus, 1893-1894: Collecting Cypriot Antiquities in a Colonial Landscape (Polina Nikolaou)Chapter 2. Traces of Imperialist Ideologies in the Work of Female Travel Writers in Colonial Cyprus(Margarita Ioannou and Katerina Gotsi)Chapter 3. A ‘garden useful and pleasant’: The Case of the Municipal Garden in Nicosia (Elena Parpa)Chapter 4. Blackness in Imaginary Artworks of Colonial Cyprus (Marilena Zackheos)Chapter 5. Posters of Cyprus: Promoting the Colony during the Interwar Period (Niki Sioki)Chapter 6. Cultural Imperialism, the Dissemination of Modern Sports and the Sociogenesis of the First Sports Clubs in British Cyprus (1878- 1931) (Tonia Georgiou)Chapter 7. Passive Resistance and Europeanization via Garment Making in British Colonial Cyprus (Noly Moyssi)Chapter 8. Of heroes and Villains: Manifestations of National and Colonial Identity in Cyprus through Historical Theatre Plays, 1878-1960 (Ellada Evangelou)Chapter 9. Queen Victoria’s Head on Postage Stamp as a Marker in Cyprus’s History (Annita Antoniadou)Chapter 10. Photographic Representations of Colonial Cyprus and the Ledra Palace Hotel (Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert and Antigone Heraclidou)ConclusionBibliography Index

Gathering established and young scholars, independent researchers and cultural practitioners, Colonial Cyprus: A Cultural History is a path-breaking incursion into the historiography of Cyprus under British rule in more senses than one. Fundamentally interdisciplinary and touching on questions of visual and textual representations, material culture and cultural heritage, gender and identity, this unprecedented initiative gives flesh to the experience of colonialism in the island, too often still confined to the dry realms of politics and diplomacy. It is therefore an essential read for anyone interested in understanding modern Cyprus, the product of a colonial encounter at the crossroads of cultural hybridity and resistance.