Yiangou / Heraclidou Cyprus from Colonialism to the Present: Visions and Realities

Essays in Honour of Robert Holland
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-78157-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 19, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London

This volume is published in honour of the acclaimed work of Robert Holland, historian of the British Empire and the Mediterranean, and it brings together essays based on the original research of his colleagues, former students and friends. The focal theme is modern Cyprus, on which much of Robert Holland’s own history writing was concentrated for many years. The essays analyse British rule in Cyprus between 1878 and 1960, and especially the transition to independence; the coverage, however, also incorporates the post-colonial era and the construction of present-day dilemmas. The Cypriot experience intertwines with Anglo-Hellenic relations generally, so that a section of the book is devoted to those aspects that have been central to Robert Holland’s sustained contribution. The essays explore, inter alia, historiography, social history, economics, politics, ideology, education and the 2013 financial crisis. Taken as a collection the essays serve as an appropriate tribute to Robert Holland as well as an innovative addition to the existing historiography of colonial and post-colonial Cyprus. They will be of great interest to anyone interested in Imperial and Commonwealth History, Anglo-Hellenic relations and the Eastern Mediterranean in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yiangou, Anastasia

Heraclidou, Antigone

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction





PART I: ROBERT HOLLAND AS HISTORIAN

- Robert Holland’s Empire

John Darwin

- The Historiography of Modern Cyprus and Robert Holland’s Place in it

Paschalis M. Kitromilides



PART II: THEMES ON THE HISTORY OF COLONIAL CYPRUS

- Society, Religion and Moral Reform in the Early Twentieth-Century Cyprus: Syllogos Orthodoxia and the 1907 Sunday Observance Law

Loizos Kapsalis

- Unseen and Unrecognized: The Physical Legacy of the Second World War in Cyprus

Tim Reardon

- ‘An Ideal to be Attained’: The 1946 Ten Year Development Plan for Cyprus

George Kazamias and Maria Panayiotou



PART III: CYPRUS’S TRANSITION FROM EMPIRE

- An Unsettled State: Majority Rule versus Federalism in Cyprus, 1957 -1964

Diana Markides

- The Struggle for Recognition and Political Rights of the Small Ethnic and Religious Minorities at the End of British Colonial Rule in Cyprus

Hubert Faustmann

- The Unitary Democratic Front of Reconstruction: EOKA’s Transformation From an Armed Movement to a Political Formation

Andreas Karyos

- An Uncommon Alliance: the Democratic Union and AKEL During the 1959 Elections

Anastasia Yiangou

- From British Colonial Government to Communal Chambers: A Change of the Guard in Cyprus Education

Antigone Heraclidou



PART IV: THE POSTCOLONIAL EXPERIENCE TO THE PRESENT

- Cyprus in Transition 1960-1974: The Impressive Economic Growth Of a Newly-Founded State and Its Impact on the Cyprus Problem

Marilena Varnava

- Cyprus and International Organizations: Overcoming the Obstacles to Membership

Maria Mut Bosque

- Cyprus in Crisis: The Ramifications of the 2013 Bank Bail-In

Michael Sarris and Simeon Matsis





PART V: ASPECTS OF ANGLO-HELLENISM

- The Substance and the Shadows: Reflections on British-Greek Relations Over Two Centuries

Michael Llewellyn-Smith

- Searching for a New Balance: Attitudes of the Greek Political Elites towards Britain, 1950-1966

Evanthis Hatzivassiliou

- The British Press and the Greek Resistance Against the Colonels, 1967-1974

Christos Christidis



Robert Holland’s publications

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anastasia Yiangou specializes in the history of British rule in Cyprus. She is the author of Cyprus in World War II: Politics and Conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean (2010) and the co-editor of The Greeks and the British in the Levant, 1800-1960s: Between Empires and Nations (2016).

Antigone Heraclidou is affiliated to the Open University of Cyprus where she lectures modern history of Cyprus. In May 2012, she was awarded a PhD in History from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. A revised version of her thesis was published in 2017 under the title Imperial Control in Cyprus: Education and Political Manipulation in the British Empire.