Sweet and bitter island : a history of the British in Cyprus / Tabitha Morgan.
Yer Numarası
A.IX/5174
ISBN
9781784533052 (paperback)
9781848853294 (hbk.)
9780857731029 (eISBN)
9781848853294 (hbk.)
9780857731029 (eISBN)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
New paperback edition.
Yayın Bilgisi
London ; New York : I. B. Tauris, 2010.
Fiziksel Niteleme
xv sayfa, [2] sayfa harita, 302 sayfa : resim, harita, 23 cm
Genel Not
İndeks s. [295]-302.
Bibliyografi, vb. Notu
Bibliyografik notlar s. [259]-288.
Bibliyografya s. [289]-294.
Bibliyografya s. [289]-294.
İçindekiler Notu
Whereare the forests? 1878- 1882 -- The whitest of white elephants. 1882-1890 -- A high degree of mental culture, 1900 -- Softening our rough peasantry, 1900-1914 -- Clauson will do the best he can, 1914-1918 -- Showing benevolent neutrality, 1916-1919 -- Gentle somnambulance, 1918-1926 -- No more mixed tea parties, 1926-1938 -- Bread stuffed with raisins, 1939-1941 -- Stripped for war, 1941- 1942 -- The levant fishing patrol and the Angelic Scheme, 1942-1945 -- The great liberator, 1945-1955 -- A child's game of Pretend, 1955-1958 -- Wheel on the idealist 1958-1960.
Özet, vb.
“On a sweltering day in July, 1878 the men of the 42nd Royal Highlanders - the Black Watch - waded ashore at Larnaca Bay to begin the British occupation of Cyprus. Today, Britons on sunbeds colonise the same stretch of sand, the latest visitors to an island which has long held a special place in the English imagination - and a controversial role in British imperial ambitions. Drawing on largely unpublished material, Tabitha Morgan reflects on why successive administrations failed, so catastrophically, to engage with their Cypriot subjects, and how social segregation, confusion about Cypriot identity and the poor calibre of so many administrators all contributed to the bloody conflict that led, finally, to Cypriot independence in 1960. Sweet and Bitter Island explores for the first time the unique bond between Britain and Cyprus and the complex, sometimes tense, relationship between the two nations which endures to the present day. Extensively researched and lyrically written, this is the definitive portrait of British colonial life on the Mediterranean“ -- Yayıncı.