ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|18 pages
Robert Holland as historian
part II|43 pages
Themes on the history of colonial Cyprus
chapter 3|13 pages
Society, religion and moral reform in early twentieth-century Cyprus
part III|88 pages
Cyprus’s transition from empire
chapter 8|15 pages
The Unitary Democratic Front of Reconstruction
chapter 10|12 pages
From British colonial government to Communal Chambers
part IV|42 pages
The post-colonial experience to the present
chapter 11|14 pages
Cyprus in transition 1960–1974
part V|40 pages
Aspects of Anglo-Hellenism