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Imagining the Modern

The Cultures of Nationalism in Cyprus

Bibliographic Data

ID19904528
AuthorsRebecca Bryant (0000-0002-2753-3881)
Year2004
Publication date2004-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueImagining the Modern (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherI.B.Tauris (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9780755620753
OpenAlexW4248713992
Open LibraryOL3329519M
ISBN9780755620753
LanguageEN
Citations received92

This book argues that two conflicting styles of nationalist imagination led to the violent rending of Cyprus in 1974 and sustained that division over decades. Based on research in both southern and northern Cyprus, the work demonstrates how the conflict emerged through the Cypriot's encounters with modernity under British colonialism, and through a consequent re-imagining of the body politic in a new world in which Cypriots were defined as part of a European periphery. Rebecca Bryant demonstrates how Muslims and Christians were transformed into Turks and Greeks, and what it meant epistemologically, ontollogically and politically when they were

Ancient history · Archaeology · Body politic · Colonialism · Ethnology · Greeks · Modernity · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Cyprus History, Politics, Society · Gender Studies · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law

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Unique citing works92
Citations per year4,38
Citation span2005 - 2026 (22)
Citation velocitycurrent
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