'BRITAIN'S GREEK ISLANDS' new book now available from PLATEIA

'BRITAIN'S GREEK ISLANDS' was launched by Associate Professor Vrasidas Karalis on Wednesday 14 October 2009 at the Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney.

'BRITAIN'S GREEK ISLANDS
Kythera and the Ionian Islands 1809 to 1864'
by Peter Prineas
Soft cover, 415 pages, bibliog., notes, index.
ISBN 9780980672213

The book tells the story of five decades in the early nineteenth century when the British ruled Kythera and the Ionian Islands. It is a very readable history, painstakingly assembled from many hundreds of hand-written letters and documents, most previously unpublished.

It conveys the texture and detail of life, society and politics in the island of Cerigo (Kythera) and the Ionian Islands (Corfu, Paxo, Santa Maura, Ithaca, Cephalonia and Zante) and illuminates important but largely forgotten events.

Based on extensive research in the archives, and illustrated with maps, photographs and historic prints, 'Britain's Greek Islands' reveals the sometimes turbulent relations that existed in the Protectorate named the 'United States of the Ionian Islands'.

The narrative is placed within the wider history of Europe and the Near East, from the Napoleonic Wars, through the Greek War of Independence, the Crimean War, and conflicts over the 'Eastern Question' that resonate to this day.

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To discover more about Britain's Greek Islands, visit the Britain's Greek Islands website.