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Imperial Control in Cyprus - Education and Political Manipulation in the British Empire (Paperback)
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Imperial Control in Cyprus - Education and Political Manipulation in the British Empire (Paperback)
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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.
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