Cyprus from Colonialism to the Present: Visions and Realities
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 Hollands 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 Hollands 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 appeal to anyone interested in Imperial and Commonwealth History, Anglo-Hellenic relations and the Eastern Mediterranean in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Anastasia Yiangou specialises 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, 18001960s: 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.
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Christos Christidis is Adjunct Instructor of History at the Hellenic Open University. He is the author of O Anendotos Agonas tis Enosis Kentrou, 19611963 (Epikentro, forthcoming); Greece during the Early Cold War. A View from the Western Archives: Documents , (with Dionysios Chourchoulis, Vaios Kalogrias, Manolis Koumas Sofia Papastamkou and Periklis Karavis), (Thessaloniki: Macedonia University, 2015); Seven years of Darkness, 19671974, the Dictatorship of the colonels: A Hellenic Parliament Foundation Exhibit, (with Anna Enepekidou), Modern Greek Studies Yearbook , 30/31 (20142015).
John Darwin teaches imperial and global history at Oxford where he is a Fellow of Nuffield College. His most recent books include After Tamerlane: the Global History of Empire (2007); The Empire Project: the Rise and Fall of the British World System 18301970 (2009); and Unfinished Empire: the Global Expansion of Britain (2012). He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
Hubert Faustmann is Professor for History and Political Science at the University of Nicosia. He is also the director of the office of the German Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) in Cyprus. From 2006 to 2016 he was the editor-in-chief of the refereed journal The Cyprus Review. He has published extensively on the British Colonial Period in Cyprus as well as Cypriot politics, history and society since 1960. He co-writes the annual reports about Cyprus for the Political Data Yearbook of the European Journal of Political Research. He is also editor and one of the authors of the monthly FES Cyprus Newsletter.
Evanthis Hatzivassiliou is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Athens. He is the author of Greece and the Cold War: Frontline State, 19521967 (London: Routledge, 2006); NATO and Western Perceptions of the Soviet Bloc: Alliance Analysis and Reporting (London: Routledge, 2014); and The NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society, 19691975: Transatlantic Relations, the Cold War and the Environment (Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, forthcoming).
Antigone Heraclidou is affiliated to the Open University of Cyprus where she teachers Modern History of Cyprus. In May 2012, she was awarded with a PhD in History from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. A revised version of her thesis was published in 2017 with I.B. Tauris, under the title Imperial Control in Cyprus: Education and Political Manipulation in the British Empire . She has previously taught at the University of Cyprus and the European University Cyprus. Her research interests include Cyprus education, Cyprus colonial history, decolonisation, etc.
