The island of Kythera A social history 1700-1863

This book examines the social history of the island of Kythera from 1700 to 1863. Particular attention is given to the relarionship between social change on the island and foreign domination, and to such factors as revolutionary behaviour, rural rioting, emigration, population growth, economy, education, and also the succeeding periods of the Western European sovereignties, from the coming of the Democratic French to the end of the British Protectorate (1797-1863) when the Ionian Islands were incorporated into the Greek State. Politics and ideas, besides uncertainty and the awakening consiousness of misarable living conditions, moved the common people of a small island in Western Greece towards a change in the pattern of their society.