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Book Number
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000283299
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ISBN
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 1443858250
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9781443858250
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Title
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The Ionian islands :. aspects of their history and culture / edited by Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon.
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Imprint
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Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
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Descr.
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xix, 486 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
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Bibliogr.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
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Introduction / Peter Mackridge -- Part I: The history and social history of the islands -- Chapter one. The Ionian Islands during the Byzantine period: an overview of their history and monuments / Maria Leontsini -- Chapter two. Via or Vita? British experience in the modern Mediterranean / Robert Holland -- Chapter three. How to work the system and thrive: Ionians and pseudo-Ionians in the Levant, 1815-1864 / A.A.D. Seymour -- Chapter four. The Souliots in Souli and Corfu and the strange case of Photos Tzavellas / JIm Potts -- Chapter five. The Ionian Islands and the Greek Revolution / George N. Leontsinis -- Chapter six. The least known Lord High: a note on James Stewart Mackenzie / A.A.D. Seymour -- Chapter seven. "A history of the peasants ... printed in gaol" and other unknown texts by the 1849 Kephalonian rebels imprisoned at Argostoli / Eleni Calligas -- Chapter eight.
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"Thalassovioti" -- living off the sea: the Corfu suburb of Mandouki in the nineteenth century / Sakis Gevas -- Chapter nine. The fate of the Jewish communities of Corfu, Zakynthos and Ioannina / Jim Potts -- Part II: The Islands in literature -- Chapter ten. Using Corfu: the island in Homer and Apollonius Rhodius / Joseph Wilson -- Chapter eleven. The Ionian Islands in the Liber insularum of Cristoforo Buondelmonti / Benedetta Bessi -- Part III: The intellectual, religious and cultural life of the Islands -- Chapter twelve. Aspects of religious coexistence: the historiography of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches in the Ionian Islands during the period of Venetian domination / Evangelia Skoufari -- Chapter thirteen. Influences and interactions in eighteenth-century Heptanesian painting / Anastasios Koutsouris and Denise-Chloe Alevizou -- Chapter fourteen. The reception of Scottish philosophy in the Ionian Islands during the British protectorate / Athanasia Glycofrydi-Leontsini -- Chapter fifteen. Seven bards from seven islands: poetry and language in the nineteenth-century Heptanese / Peter Mackridge -- Chapter sixteen. The music of the Ionian Islands and its contribution to the emergence of "Greek national music" / Kostas Kardamis -- Chapter seventeen. Corfu canes: olive-wood companions from the gardens of Alcinous / Adam Smith -- Chapter eighteen. Konstantinos Theotokis and Giuseppe di Lampedusa: literary responses to turbulent times / J.M.Q. Davies.
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Subject - Lib.Cong.
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Ionian Islands (Greece) -- History.
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Ionian Islands (Greece) -- Description and travel.
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Add.Entry
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Hirst, Anthony 1945- editor.
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Sammon, Paddy, editor.
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British School Library
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