Cyprus: A Modern History |
 William Mallinson
ISBN: 1850435804
This narrative history of Cyprus - the most thorough and up-to-date account currently available - examines the modern history of the island during a period of enormous change. Topics covered range from the British acquisition of Cyprus in 1878, when...(read more) |
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Cyprus: The Search for a Solution |
 David Hannay
ISBN: 1850436657
The Cyprus problem has defeated all attempts to resolve it for more than forty years. From 1996 onwards the UN, with strong support from the US, the UK and other EU members, mounted the most sustained of all the efforts to reach an agreement, so that a...(read more) |
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Divided Cyprus: Modernity, History, and an Island in Conflict |
 Yiannis Papadakis
ISBN: 0253218519
The volatile recent past of Cyprus has turned this island from the idyllic "island of Aphrodite" of tourist literature into a place renowned for hostile confrontations. Cyprus challenges familiar binary divisions, between Christianity and...(read more) |
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Echoes from the Dead Zone: Across the Cyprus Divide |
 Yiannis Papadakis
ISBN: 185043428X
In the space of a generation, Cyprus - the island of Aphrodite, goddess of beauty and love - has experienced an anti-colonial struggle, post-colonial chaos, internecine fighting and hatred, civil war, invasion, population displacements and physical...(read more) |
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History of Modern Cyprus |
 Stavros Panteli
ISBN: 0948853328
Cyprus - an island that has always been a victim of external 'realpolitic'. It still remains so today. The history of Cyprus is one of the oldest recorded in the world. From the earliest times Cyprus' historical significance far outweighed its small size. |
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Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger |
 Christopher Hitchens
ISBN: 1859841899
This is a study of great-power misconduct. Christopher Hitchens examines the events leading up to the partition of Cyprus and its legacy. The book argues that the intervention of four major foreign powers - Turkey, Greece, Britain and the United States...(read more) |
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Imagining the Modern: The Cultures of Nationalism in Cypru |
 Rebecca Bryant
ISBN: 185043462X
This book argues that two conflicting styles of nationalist imagination led to the violent rending of Cyprus in 1974 and sustained that division over decades. Based on research in both southern and northern Cyprus, the work demonstrates how the...(read more) |
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The Cyprus Conspiracy: America, Espionage and the Turkish Invasion |
 Brendan O'Malley, Ian Craig
ISBN: 1860647375
In 1974 the Greek colonels ousted the Greek-Cypriot leader of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, and Turkey retaliated by invading and seizing a third of the island. Cyprus remains split in two, like Berlin before the wall came down, bristling with troops...(read more) |
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The Making of Modern Cyprus: From Obscurity to Statehood |
 Stavros Panteli
ISBN: 0948853093
After a brief account of the formative years cl0,000 BC to 1570 AD and the arrival of the Ottomans in 1570, the book unfolds into the British connection, the formation of the Republic and finally into the tragic events of 1974 and beyond. The book...(read more) |
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World in Conflict: Cyprus: Divided Island |
 Thomas Streissguth
ISBN: 0822535513
Intended as a reference source for school projects in a variety of curriculum areas. This book aims to give readers a balanced perspective on Cyprus through pictures of the people and groups involved in these conflicts and of those working to end the...(read more) |
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