Protectorate Cyprus

ISBN: 9781350154728 出版年：2015 页码：383 Gail Dallas Hook Bloomsbury Publishing

A strategic outpost in the Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus was vital to British imperial ambitions in tOttoman Empire grew increasingly fragile in the nineteenth century. HerHook describes the British occupation of Cyprus from 1878 to 1914, during which British government, science, and capital investment were installed alongside a new British colonial community, building 'British Cypruthe island became a formBritish Empire. Protectorate Cyprus further demonstrates how the British attempted to bring 'good government' to Cyprus yet failed to resolve the issues of Muslim and Greek Orthodox divisions. representation of Britain's 'informal empire' before World War I that hstudied. Protectorate Cyprus is a crucial addition to the history of the British Empire.