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Cyprus in the 1930s: British Colonial Rule and the Roots of the Cyprus Conflict

Cyprus in the 1930s: British Colonial Rule and the Roots of the Cyprus Conflict

Rappas, Alexis

Hardcover

Series: International Library of Twentieth Century History

General European HistoryGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 1780764383
ISBN13: 9781780764382
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Apr 24 2014
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Why has the unification of Cyprus proved impossible? The existing literature looks to the 1950s, and the formation of EOKA under George Grivas. Here, Alexis Rappas challenges the dominance of that starting point in the current histories of the island, showing that the key to the conflict between the British Empire and Greek Cypriots lies in the disputes of the 1930s. Cyprus in the 1930s charts the history of the island in this period, and details British attempts to impose a homogeneous 'Cypriot' culture onto a diverse and divided population. Community leaders and the hierarchy of the Church, who had functioned as bridges between local interests, were marginalised as Britain attempted to engineer unification through education and social policy. The result was a radicalisation of both Turkish-Cypriot and Greek-Cypriot identity. Based on new primary source material from Britain, Cyprus and Greece. Rappas analyses British state-building and the role of Cypriot ethnicities in the formation of modern Cyprus.

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