The Greek Gift: : Politics in a Cypriot Village

by Peter Loizos

This volume presents the complete collection of the Treaties signed in Nicosia, Cyprus, on 16 August 1960, the day on which Cyprus became Independent.This study was one of the first to spell out how modern ideological politics affected a rural community in a post-colonial state. Cyprus, under British rule, had permitted the Greek and Turkish Cypriots only limited experience of democratic participation in national politics. The last five years of colonial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3447059729
• ISBN13: 9783447059725
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Harrassowitz
• Length: 326 Pages