Britain and the Revolt in Cyprus, 1954-1959
Robert Holland
Price: £69.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-820538-8
Publication date: 26 November 1998
368 pages, 12 halftones, 1 map, 232x156 mm
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| Reviews |
| - 'perhaps the best single study in the historiography of decolonisation' - Perry Anderson, London Review of Books
- 'In less than four years Britain and the Revolt in Cyprus
has become a classic ... Dr Robert F. Holland has produced something all historians desire, a popular and definitive masterpiece, which has already been translated into the Greek language.
' - Melbourne Historical Journal
- '[Holland] has produced what is likely to become the standard work on the closing stages of Cyprus's colonial status.' - Intelligence and National Security
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| Description | | - The first detailed study of the revolt in Cyprus in the 1950s
| This is the first in-depth reconstruction of a major British decolonization based fully on original documentation. Charting the `inner history' of a violent colonial Emergency, it provides a case-study of the dilemmas posed by the challenge of terrorism overseas after 1945.
Robert Holland analyses the evolution of a political settlement which, almost uniquely in the British `end of
empire', slid beyond the United Kingdom's control. He considers the effects of the revolt on the politics of the surrounding region, particularly in relation to the emerging ethnic struggle between Greeks and Turks. His work offers a fresh perspective on Mediterranean and Middle Eastern developments, including the involvement of NATO and the United States, in the age of the Suez Crisis and its
aftermath.
This account is essential reading for anybody interested in the liquidation of the British Empire, the breakdown of ethnic co-existence under intense pressure, and the effects of regional destabilization on the wider international system. |
Readership: Scholars and students of 20th century European history; historians of decolonization. Social scientists and scholars of international relations.
| Authors, editors,
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Robert Holland, Reader in Imperial and Commonwealth History, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
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