The Ionian Islands and Epirus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ionian Islands and Epirus write by Jim Potts. This book was released on 2010. The Ionian Islands and Epirus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing a portrait of the islands off the coast of Greece, Corfu resident Jim Potts narrates the cultural legacies of this unique place from Homer to modern times.
The Ionian Islands
The Ionian Islands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ionian Islands write by Anthony Hirst. This book was released on 2014-06-26. The Ionian Islands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Ionian Islands stretch south from the Adriatic, where Corfu’s Pantokrator mountain overlooks Albania across narrow straits, along the western coast of mainland Greece through Paxi, Kephalonia, Ithaca, Lefkada and Zakynthos, to Kythira, midway between Athens and Crete. Three crucial sea-battles were fought here – Sybota (the first recorded), Actium and Lepanto – an indication of the Ionians’ role as an East-West crossroads, between Western Christendom and the Orthodox and Islamic East. Ruled by Venice in her Stato da Mar (sea-empire), the islands became an independent state, as the Septinsular Republic and then, under British Protection, as the United States of the Ionian Islands. Before the mainland Greeks had a State, the Ionian people were proud of having a university – from 1824 – in Corfu town, a World Heritage Site. The islands were united with the Kingdom of Greece in 1864 – the first addition to its territory. This book (with over thirty illustrations) explores the history, archaeology, languages, customs and culture of the Ionian Islands. Without venturing far from the islands, readers will learn much about this distinctive part of the Mediterranean and Greek world. The chapters range from the mythology of the Bronze Age (Homer’s Scheria, where Odysseus startled Nausicaa as she bathed) to today, concentrating particularly on the British Protectorate (1815–1864). One, illustrated by contemporary maps, deals with descriptions of the islands by a fourteenth-century Venetian writing in Latin. The roles of Jews, Souliot refugees, Greek revolutionaries, rebel peasants in Cephalonia, and workers in Corfu’s port suburb of Mandouki are examined in detail. There are contributions on religion and philosophy, as well as literature, music, painting, and the folk-art of carved walking-canes.
The Ionian Islands During the Present Century
The Ionian Islands During the Present Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ionian Islands During the Present Century write by Henry Jervis White Jervis. This book was released on 1863. The Ionian Islands During the Present Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Xenocracy
Xenocracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Xenocracy write by Sakis Gekas. This book was released on 2016-12-01. Xenocracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Of the many European territorial reconfigurations that followed the wars of the early nineteenth century, the Ionian State remains among the least understood. Xenocracy offers a much-needed account of the region during its half-century as a Protectorate of Great Britain – a period that embodied all of the contradictions of British colonialism. A middle class of merchants, lawyers and state officials embraced and promoted a liberal modernization project. Yet despite the improvements experienced by many Ionians, the deterioration of state finances led to divisions along class lines and presented a significant threat to social stability. Sakis Gekas shows that the impasse engendered de- pendency upon and ambivalence toward Western Europe, anticipating the ‘neocolonial’ condition with which the Greek nation struggles even today.
The Ionian Islands in Relation to Greece
The Ionian Islands in Relation to Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ionian Islands in Relation to Greece write by John Dunn Gardner. This book was released on 1859. The Ionian Islands in Relation to Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
