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After a long and hard day at work, which had taken him to Larnaca, Antonios Triantafyllides, a leading lawyer recently appointed to the Cypriot government's Advisory Council, arrived at his Nicosia home in the cool evening of 12 January 1934, only to be shot by an unknown assailant. He died the next morning. Twelve months later, Stavros Christodoulou was charged, but acquitted of the murder. Considered political, the murder has been a taboo subject for Cypriot society and historians alike, and a cold case that nobody has seemingly taken any interest in solving let alone in exploring (at least publicly), that is, until now.

This book offers a theory on who was behind the assassination, the first attempt to explain an 87-year-old cold case. In doing so, it explores both the relationship between the British colonial authorities and the Cypriot political elites, and the various divisions within the latter.

This book creates and analyses a 'community of records' to show that by reading both with and especially against the grain, it is probable that those responsible were radical right-wing nationalist extremists. Thus, for historical criminologists and crime investigators, the exploration of the sources examined could serve as a model of forensic analysis of cold cases. For those interested in the British Empire, the book shows how the British authorities had no real control over extremist nationalist politics and political violence in the 1930s no more than they did in the 1950s. For those with an interest in Cypriot history, this book will make startling and uncomfortable revelations about the so-called National Liberation Movement in Cyprus and suggest that the violence that gripped the island from the 1950s and led to partition could have been avoided.

Political science. --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Triantophyllides, Antonios --- Assassination. --- E.O.K.A. (Cyprus) --- History. --- Cyprus --- Politics and government --- EOKA (Cyprus) --- Ethnikē Organōsis Kypriōn Agōnistōn --- National Organization of Cypriot Struggle --- Ε.Ο.Κ.Α. (Cyprus) --- E.O.K.A.-B (Cyprus) --- Kıbrıs --- Kypros --- Zypern --- Chypre --- Qubruṣ --- Kipriaki Dhimokratia --- Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti --- Cipro --- Chipre --- Cypern --- Kipŭr --- Tsiprus --- Kypriakē Dēmokratia --- Republic of Cyprus --- Ciper --- Κύπρος --- Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία --- Kipr --- Кипр --- Ostrov Kipr --- Остров Кипр --- Cyprus (Turkish republic of northern Cyprus, 1983- ) --- Cyprus (Turkish federated state, 1975-1983) --- HISTORY / Middle East / General --- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century * --- HISTORY / Europe / General

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A wide-ranging edited collection that interrogates colonial expansion, and the mismatch between intention, perception and hype, and the actual realities. This volume explores how imperial powers established and expanded their empires through decisions that were often based on exaggerated expectations and wishful thinking, rather than on reasoned and scientific policies. It explores these exaggerations through the concepts of El Dorado, utopias and dystopias - undertakings based on irrational perceived values - in case studies from across the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, and incorporates imperial traditions including Scottish, British, French, German, Italian and American. Various colonial spaces are considered, from the Mediterranean, Middle East, Africa, Australia, Asia and the Americas, and in doing so, the contributors offer new insights into the nature of imperialism and colonial settlement.

Imperialism --- Colonies --- Utopias. --- Dystopias. --- History. --- Social aspects. --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Eldorado. --- Bambuk gold. --- British Mesopotamian El Dorado. --- Darien project. --- El Dorados. --- French Indochina. --- German Templer colonies. --- Greek expectations. --- Palestine. --- Patagonia. --- Scottish adventurism. --- Swan River Colony. --- colonial settlement. --- dystopias. --- imperial causality. --- imperialism. --- utopias.

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Caricatures and cartoons --- Comic books, strips, etc --- Imperialism in literature. --- Imperialism in popular culture. --- Political aspects. --- History and criticism.

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"This richly textured collection contributes both nuance and precision to our understanding of the emergence of Greece as an independent nation-state. The authors offer new and variegated perspectives on the complex and often poorly-understood ideologies, identities, allegiances, and rivalries that shaped the path to nationhood, thereby suggesting why some of these clearly influential aspects have largely disappeared from conventional accounts both in Greece and abroad." -Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University, USA "Amidst the abundance of the scholarship on the Greek Revolution, this collection stands out, as it brings together new voices and themes combining them with older questions. Scholars interested in the Greek Revolution, its transnational and local dimensions, its commercial and violent aspects, its echo around the world, its poetic expression, and its legacies throughout the last 200 years, will find much that is new and original here." - Konstantina Zanou, Columbia University, USA This book marks the 200-year anniversary of uprisings in the Ottoman Balkans between February and March 1821, which became known in the West as the beginnings of the Greek War of Independence (1821-32) and led to the formation of the modern Greek state. It explores the war and its impact on societies involved by delving into the myths that surround it, the realities that have often been ignored or suppressed, and its lasting legacies on national identities and histories. It also explores memory and commemoration in Greece, in other countries impacted, and the Greek diaspora. This book offers a fresh perspective on this pivotal event in Greek, Ottoman, Balkan, Mediterranean, European, and world histories. Yianni Cartledge is a PhD candidate at Flinders University, South Australia. His research explores migration from the Aegean islands to the Anglosphere between 1815-1945. His current case studies include the Ikarians of South Australia and Chiots of London. This is his first edited volume. Andrekos Varnava is Professor of Imperial History at Flinders University, South Australia. He has published four monographs and more than 50 peer-reviewed articles/book chapters on the history of the British Empire, specifically in Cyprus, on the Armenian Question, and on British and Australian migration histories. This is his eleventh edited volume. .

Politics --- World history --- History --- History of Europe --- geschiedenis --- politiek --- sociale geschiedenis --- wereldpolitiek --- Europese geschiedenis --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- Europe