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Author Burke, John, author

Title Britain and the Cyprus Crisis of 1974 : Conflict, Colonialism and the Politics of Remembrance in Greek Cypriot Society
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
Contents Chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 'One of our problems': The British view of 1974 -- chapter 3 Imagining conflict and its causes: Structuring a popular Greek Cypriot response -- chapter 4 Creating official images of the past in Greek Cypriot historical narratives and school texts -- chapter 5 Reconciling the past: Sites of memory and acts of public remembrance -- chapter 6 Framing the 'Cyprus Problem' -- chapter 7 Conclusion
Summary "This book examines the ideological and socio-political discourses shaping the remembrance and representation of Britain and the Cyprus conflict of 1974 within Greek Cypriot society. By combining the official to the popular, and drawing on an extensive range of oral history interviews, this monograph shows that a suspicion born out of Britain's long (neo)-colonial connection towards Cyprus has come to frame the image and understanding of British actions associated with the events, and lasting consequences, of 1974. Indeed, with the island of Cyprus still divided, and the requirement to remember a national imperative, this book has a direct contemporary relevance. However within the existent literature, whilst much has been written about the political roots of the Cyprus conflict, no study has yet sought to systematically analyse and understand the influences shaping the history and memory of British actions on Cyprus in 1974. One defined by the existence of 'partitionist' conspiracies, collusive accusations, and a series of memory distortions which continue to resonate strongly irrespective of the evidence which is now available. As such, by analysing the influences shaping the image of Britain in 1974, one can begin to understand in ever greater detail the Anglo-Greek Cypriot relationship in a modern context."--Provided by publisher
Subject Greeks -- Cyprus -- Interviews
Memory -- Political aspects -- Cyprus
Oral history -- Cyprus
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Greeks
Historiography
International relations
Memory -- Political aspects
Oral history
SUBJECT Cyprus -- History -- Cyprus Crisis, 1974- -- Historiography
Great Britain -- Relations -- Cyprus
Subject Cyprus
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Interviews
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315276120
1315276127