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cypezokyli
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i would like to bring to your attention a series of interesting books (in english and in german) published and sponsored by bibliopolis. the program is called :
Studien zur Archäologie und Geschichte Griechenlands und Zyperns (studies of archeology and history of greece and cyprus) under the supervision of two professors Reinhard Stupperich and Heinz A. Richter.
the whole series of books can be found here :
http://www.bibliopolis.de/peleus-alle-Titel.html
concerning the cypro , they have sponsored the following books :
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Özdemir A. Özgür, Cyprus in my Life: Testimony of a Turkish-Cypriot Diplomat (2001) 176 S., 29 Abb., 8°, geb., ISBN 3-933925-18-5, 24,50 €
The book is written by a former diplomat of the Government of Cyprus, former Senior Political Affairs Officer of the United Nations and former Professor of the University of Cyprus in the Department of Social & Political Science and the Turkish Studies Department. It contains his memoirs, experiences and observations relating essentially to the Cyprus problem. When the Greek version came out in mid-2000, it was presented to the public both in Cyprus and in Athens. Moreover, the book refers to very many letters written to him by Dr. Ihsam Ali, a Turkish Cypriot, who, for many years, was the Political Adviser of President Makarios.
"This is an objective, balanced and much-needed book written in the language of truth. It is more than a personal, informative and courageous narrative; it provides interesting insights into the politics and society of Cyprus. In doing so, it also reflects the agony and vision of a man who has dedicated his life to the unity of Cyprus." (Prof. Joseph S. Joseph, University of Cyprus)
"The book is important because people need to hear open-minded persons with vision ... it gives hope and is written by a person who very much loves his country." (G. Papandreou, Foreign Minister of Greece) |
http://www.bibliopolis.de/peleus7.html
John Charalambous, Alicia Chrysostomou, Denis Judd, Heinz A. Richter, Reinhard Stupperich (eds.), 40 Years on from Independence. Proceedings of a Conference in the University of North London on 16-17 November 2000 (2002), 199 S., 20 Abb., 8°, geb., ISBN 3-933925-30-4, 29 € .
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This conference was organised by the Cyprus Studies Centre and the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of North London in collaboration with Athens University, Mannheim University, University of Luton and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London.
The volume examines closely the achievements and problems of Cyprus, forty years after independence by considering a number of social, historical, political, economic and cultural issues and themes.
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http://www.bibliopolis.de/peleus14.html
the one i am currently reading which i must say i find really good :
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Michael Attalides, Cyprus. Nationalism and International Politics (2003) 226 pages. 8°, hardcover. ISBN 3-933925-35-5, 35 € Reprint of the 1979 edition
M. Attalides' Klassiker der Literatur zu Zypern analysiert auf sehr differenzierte Weise die internen und externen Faktoren, die 1974 zu der Katastrophe der Invasion durch die Türkei führten. Er zeigt, wie auf Zypern der europäische Wunsch nach einem Nationalstaat sich als antikolonialer Kampf manifestierte, wie aus einer muslimischen Minorität ein türkischer Staat im Staat entstand und wie es zum Zusammenstoß der beiden Volksgruppen kam. Eine Analyse der Politik der Mutterländer und der Kolonialmacht Großbritannien runden das Bild ab.
(an analysis at different levels of internal and external factors that lead to the catastrophy of 1974. he concetrates on how the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot nationalism were created and evolved, throughtout the last 150 years. )
Contents
Introduction VII
I. Small island and imperial powers 1
II. The enosis movement: European nationalism as anti-colonialism 22
III. The Turkish Cypriots: from religious minority to a state within a state 36
IV. Sources of Cypriot consciousness 57
V. Relations between Greek and Turkish Cypriots and the problem of bicommunalism 80
VI. Greek Cypriot politics: the paradox of enosis 104
VII. The problems converge: the role of the imperial powers 138
VIII. The problems converge: the coup and the invasion 162
Conclusions 180
Notes 193
Bibliography 216
Index of Names 225 |
http://www.bibliopolis.de/peleus18.html
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Hubert Faustmann & Nicos Peristianis (eds.), Britain in Cyprus. Colonialism and Post-Colonialism 1878-2006. (2006) 656 Seiten, über 30 Abbildungen, 8°, hard cover, ISBN 3-933925-36-3, 49 €
Britain played an important role in Cypriot history, society and culture during the last 125 years. Cyprus was a British colony from 1878 to 1960 and during this period many of the features of modern Cypriot society were shaped.
Between 1955 and 1959 EOKA, a Greek-Cypriot underground organisation, fought an armed struggle for union of the island with Greece. This conflict resulted also in civil strife between the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities and led to the involvement of Greece and Turkey which came to the brink of war over the island. In the end a compromise was found nobody had wished for: independence. Until today Britain is accused of carrying the main responsibility for the emergence and escalation of the Cyprus conflict through a consistent policy of divide and rule.
Britain also played an important role in the history of the island after independence. The UK shared together with Greece and Turkey the responsibility for the preservation of the constitutional order and the territorial integrity of the island. Moreover, Britain retained two sovereign military bases as colonial relics.
In 1963 the constitutional order of the Republic broke down resulting in renewed armed conflict between the two communities. The unresolved conflict between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots as well as their “mother countries” culminated in a Greek coup d’état against the Greek Cypriot president Makarios and an ensuing Turkish invasion in 1974, which led to the current division of the island. Britain is accused of having failed to live up to its responsibilities as a Guarantor power. Are all these accusations justified?
This book contains the most comprehensive analysis of the relations between Great Britain and Cyprus from 1878 to the present day. More than 40 eminent scholars assess the British role in the emergence and the historical course of the Cyprus problem as well as the British-Cypriot relations after independence.
The historical-political analysis is enriched by a number of articles dealing with sociological, anthropological, economic and cultural aspects of British-Cypriot relations.
This book is an essential source for anybody interested in British-Cypriot relations, modern Cypriot history as well as Colonialism and Post-Colonialism.
Contents
Introduction: Hubert Faustmann and Nicos Peristianis 7
Heinz A Richter The Grand Game, the Balkans, the Congress of Berlin and Cyprus 11
Diana Markides Cyprus 1878-1925: Ambiguities and Uncertainties 19
Andrekos Varnava “Cyprus is of no use to anybody”: The Pawn, 1878-1915 35
Mike Hajimichael Revisiting Thomson – The Colonial Eye and Cyprus 61
Rebecca Bryant Signatures and ‘Simple Ones’: Constituting a Public in Cyprus, circa 1900 79
Marios Constantinou Rethinking Max Weber’s Sociology of Domination in Colonial Context: A Micro-Macro Framework for a Theory of Authority Relevant to the Case of Cyprus 99
Heinz A Richter Benevolent Autocracy 1931-1945 133
Martin Strohmeier “I’d rather have it in Cyprus than nowhere”: A Plan for a British University in the Near East (1935-1940) 151
Jan Asmussen “Dark-skinned Cypriots will not be accepted!” Cypriots in the British Army 1939-1945 167
George H Kelling British Policy in Cyprus 1945-1955. The Pigeons Come Home to Roost 187
Evanthis Hatzivassiliou British Strategic Priorities and the Cyprus Question, 1954-1958 199
Makarios Drousiotis The Greco-Turkish ‘Para-State’ and Cyprus 1947-1960 211
Nicos Peristianis The Rise of the Left and of the Intra-Ethnic Cleavage 233
Vassilis Protopapas The Rise of a Bi-Polar Party System, Municipal Elections 1940-1955 269
Christophoros Christophorou The Emergence of Modern Politics 1940-1960 295
Niyazi Kizilyurek The Turkish Cypriots from an Ottoman-Muslim Community to a National Community 315
Hüseyin Mehmet Atesin The Process of Secularisation of the Turkish Community 1925-1975 327
Dimitra Karoulla-Vrikki Language and Ethnicity in Cyprus under the British: A Linkage of Heightened Salience 343
Petra Tournay-Theodotou The Empire Writes Back: Anti-Colonial Nationalism in Costas Montis’ Closed Doors and Rodis Roufos’ The Age of Bronze 359
Rita C Severis Travelling Artists in Cyprus: Art, Identity and Politics 381
Hubert Faustmann Independence Postponed: Cyprus 1959-1960 413
Hansjörg Brey The Cypriot Economy under British Rule and the Economic Heritage of the British Period 431
Robert Holland The Historiography of Late Colonial Cyprus: Where Do We Go from Here? 445
Joseph S Joseph The Political Context and Consequences of the London and Zurich Agreements 453
Brendan O’Malley The Impact of British Strategic Interests on the Cyprus Problem 473
Claude Nicolet Lack of Concern, Will and Power: British Policy towards Cyprus, 1960-1974 491
Klearchos A Kyriakides The Sovereign Base Areas and British Defence Policy Since 1960 511
Oliver P Richmond Decolonisation and Post-Independence Causes of Conflict: Mapping the Case of Cyprus 535
James Ker-Lindsay The Joint Truce Force in Cyprus, December 1963-March 1964 561
Alan James Britain and the Crisis of 1963-1964. The Manifestation of a Special Interest 573
Keith Kyle British Policy on Cyprus 1974-2004 583
Tim Potier Britain and Cyprus: From Referendum to Reunification? 607
Documents
Peter Loizos HajiMatheos HajiNikolas – A Home-Grown Radical Thinker 631
HajiMatheos HajiNikola The Agrarian Class in Cyprus 637
George Vassiliou Britain and the EU Accession of Cyprus 653 |
this one i defenitely have to read.
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Peter Loizos, The Greek Gift: Politics in a Cypriot Village (reprint of the 1975 edition), (2004), 344 pages, 8°, hard cover,ISBN 3-933925-55-X, 36.50 €
This study was one of the first to spell out how modern ideological politics affected a rural community in a post-colonial state. Cyprus, under British rule, had permitted the Greek and Turkish Cypriots only limited experience of democratic participation in national politics. The last five years of colonial rule in Cyprus [1955-1960] witnessed a major struggle by Greek Cypriots for “freedom” - by which they meant, a political Union with Greece, a goal which had obsessed them since the turn of the century, but which had alienated Turkish Cypriot nationalists.
Independence in 1960 was soon disrupted by violent conflict between Greek and Turkish paramilitaries, and the retreat of many Turkish Cypriots into enclaves, both defensive and secessionist.
The village described here, [later identified as Argaki, near Morphou in W. Cyprus,] had produced an active unit of anti-British guerillas, members of the underground organization EOKA, led by Col. George Grivas. It had acted as a hiding place for EOKA fighters dodging the British, men like Nikos Sampson, and Nikos Koshis. It was also a mixed village, with a large Greek majority, the subjects of this study, and a small Turkish minority. Twenty five miles from the capital, prospering from irrigated agriculture, the village found itself intensively caught up in the rivalries between Greek nationalist leaders. President Makarios, Interior Minister Polykarpos Yorgadjis, [later assassinated] Glavkos Clerides, [later President] Dr.Vassos Lyssarides, and Nikos Sampson [a “president” imposed by the Greek dictatorship] are all major actors on the national political stage, but they are also connected by ties of friendship and political patronage to their Argaki clients – the village political activists who have variously identified with these national figures, but find that when the big men start to quarrel, the effects are felt disturbingly at the village level. Men who might otherwise be helping each to prosperity and planning to see their children marry each other, find themselves at each others’ throats, and only the skillful diplomacy of the more far-sighted village leaders keeps the village from tragedy.
While giving his lively first-hand account of a single village, Loizos is compelled to place the political processes he documents within the wider context of national and international politics. This book has been required reading for specialists on Cyprus, when they sought to understand how Greek-on-Greek political passions played out at the grass roots level. The Greek military dictatorship [1967-74] casts its shadow over these pages, recruiting young villagers to overthrow their elected President. Cold War rivalries between NATO and the USSR also play their part. The village cannot be isolated from decisions taken in Athens,m Ankara, Moscow, Washington and London, but could village activists really understand how high the stakes were in the games they were playing?
The book ends shortly before the 1974 Greek coup against Makarios and subsequent invasion by Turkey, which turned these prospering villagers into refugees, the subjects of a subsequent study The Heart Grown Bitter.
Peter Loizos book is one of the few classics of the Cyprus Problem studies. |
and also the you can get from the link more details on the following :
Vassilis Fouskas & Heinz A. Richter (eds.), Cyprus and Europe: The Long Way Back
Elena Pogiatzi, Die Grabreliefs auf Zypern von der archaischen bis zur römischen Zeit
Nicolas D. Macris (ed.), The 1960 Treaties on Cyprus and Selected Subsequent Acts
James Ker-Lindsay, Britain and the Cyprus Crisis in 1963-64
Sevgül Ulludağ,Cyprus: The Untold Stories
Makarios Drousiotis, Cyprus 1974: Greek Coup and Turkish Invasion
also for those who can read german, i.e the following one: city 
this professor of history made an amazingly detailed work on the cyppro :
Heinz A. Richter, Geschichte der Insel Zypern 1878-1949
Heinz A. Richter, Geschichte der Insel Zypern Band II 1950-1959
i ve read a couple of chapters , of the first book and he is really good. |
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thanks for the detailed info Cypez. ;o)
I'll have to add them to my (quite long) list.... |
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| Nice one cypez, keep good info like this coming. |
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