Insular Destinies

Paschalis M. Kitromilides, PhD Harvard University, is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Athens and Director of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies. From 2000 to 2011 he was Director of the Institute of Neohellenic Research at the National Hellenic Research Foundation. His recent books in English include: Adamantios Korais and the European Enlightenment (Voltaire Foundation, 2010); Enlightenment and Revolution. The Making of Modern Greece (Harvard University Press, 2013); Enlightenment and religion in the Orthodox world (Voltaire Foundation, 2016).

• Foreword by Professor Robert HollandAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart One: Culture and Society in a Captive Island Cyprus in History Early Modern Cypriot Learning: A provisional periodization proposal (1571-1878) The Patriotism of the Expatriates Repression and Protest in Traditional Society: Cyprus 1764 The Anonymity of a Prominent Woman in Eighteenth-Century Cyprus A Moldovian Connection to the Introduction of the Enlightenment in Cyprus: The contribution of Archbishop Kyprianos (1810-1821) Cyprus in 1821: A report to the Levant Company and the Layers of Historical Memory Collective Consciousness and Poetry: Three moments in the literary tradition of modern Cyprus Part Two: The Politics of the Cyprus Question From Coexistence to Confrontation: The dynamics of ethnic conflict in Cyprus Ethnic Conflict in a Strategic Area: The case of Cyprus An Unexplored Case of Political Change: A research note on the electoral history of Cyprus Political Community in Plural Societies Relevance or Irrelevance of Nationalism? A perspective from the Eastern Mediterranean Milestones in the Historiography of the Cyprus Question Bibliographical and critical notesIndex

‘The volume anthologizes studies which can safely be characterized as works of fundamental importance for anyone seeking to study modern Cyprus in a comprehensive manner. Not merely because of the new disciplinary pathways which they carved out for scholars, with respect, for example, to the crucial impact of electoral politics on the island’s social reconfiguration, or owing to the conceptual frameworks that they established based on paradigm-setting concepts such as "the dialectic of intolerance": primarily because they constitute bold, far-sighted introspective treatments of the Cyprus Question articulated during a period when few ventured to reflect critically on the issue’ - George Kalpadakis in Kathimerini, 30 April to 02 May 2021.