Evolution of the Political, Social and Economic Life of Cyprus, 1191-1950

Spyros Sakellaropoulos is a Professor in the Department of Social Policy at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece, with State and Political Theory as his particular area of specialization.

• Part One. From Richard the Lionheart to the cession of Cyprus to the British.- First section: The domination of the West.- 1. The conquest of Cyprus by Richard the Lionheart.- 2. The period Lusignan domination.- 3. The crisis of Frankish rule.- 4. The period of Venetian rule  (1474-1578).- 5. On the fall of the Venetians.- Second Section: The Ottoman period (1571-1878).- 6. The organization of production in Cyprus and the economic situation of the rayah.- 7. Administration.- 8. Population movement.- 9. The first uprisings (1578-1688).- 10. The crisis of the Asiatic mode of production in the Ottoman Empire.- 11. The role of the Church from the mid-17th century onwards.- 12. The uprising of Boyatzoglou and the administrations reforms it triggered.- 13. The reforms of 1754.- 14. The organization of taxation in the 18th century.- 15. The role of the Church as landowner and economic factor. 16. Insurrections in the 18th and 19th century.- 17. The events of 1821.- 18. Administrative changes and social reactions in the 1830-1839 period.- 19. The reforms of the 19th century in the Ottoman Empire (Tanzimat, Hatt-i humayun.- 20. The shaping of the rising bourgeois class.- 21. Relations between the rising bourgeois class and the Church.- 22. The existence, transmutation and emergence of differences between the two communities.- Part Two. The first period of British administration 1878-1939.- 23. On the act of cession of Cyprus from the Ottomans to the English.- 24. The institutional and political framework for the administration of Cyprus after the 1931 uprising.- 25. Education.- 26. The institutional framework for local self-government.- 27. The first forms of economic development.- 28. The internal conflicts within the hegemonic groups of the Greek Cypriots.- 29. The first rise of Young Turk nationalism (1878-1912).- 30. British offers of cession of Cyprus to Greece, in 1912 and 1915.- 31. The demand for Enosis in the 1920s.- 32. The causes of the Uprising in 1931.- 33. The consequences of the Uprising.- 34. Change in the structures of power.- 35. The growth of the Cypriot economy and the transition from agricultural power coalition  to capitalist hegemony.- Part Three. From the Second World War to the 1950 referendum.- 36. The Second World War.- 37. Social conditions in the 1940s.- 38. A brief account of the new stance of the Communist Party of Cyprus on the question of Enosis.- 39. The municipal elections of 1943. 40. The creation of the Cypriot National Party (KEK) and the founding of the Labour Confederation of Cyprus (SEK).- 41. The question of Enosis and the internal political controversies of the period 1943-1945.- 42. The 1946 municipal elections.- 43. The dual elections for the designation of the Archbishop.- 44. The stance of the Turkish Cypriots.- 45. The thinking of the British, the organization of the "diaskeptiki" of 1947 and its aftermath.- 46. AKEL after the "diaskeptiki".- 47. The sharpening of the internal conflict after the "diaskeptiki" up to the municipal elections of 1949.- 48. The referendum of 1950.- 49. Conclusion.