Cyprus Tribute and Geopolitics in the Levant, 1875–1960

Diana Markides is a historian specialising in the colonial history of Cyprus in a regional perspective. Previously she was Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London, UK. She has published widely on the modern history of Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean, and is the author of Cyprus 1957-1963: From Colonial Conflict to Constitutional Crisis (2001).  She is also co-author, with Robert Holland, of The British and the Hellenes (2006), which was co-winner of the Runciman Award in 2007.

• Chapter 1 - Bonds and Bridgeheads: The Geopolitical and Financial Context of the British Acquisition of Cyprus, 1875-1878.- Chapter 2 - Creating Tributes: The Formal Establishment of the Cyprus Tribute in Context, 1878-1883.- Chapter 3 - Bricks without Straw: The Dilemmas of the British Administration in Cyprus, 1884-1900.- Chapter 4 - The Cyprus Tribute in Times of Tumult: From Ottoman Suzerainty to British Colonial Rule, 1900-1925.- Chapter 5 - In the Shadow of Egypt: The Abolition of the Ottoman Tribute in Cyprus, 1924-1931.-  Chapter 6 - "Unfinished Business": The Tribute 1931-1945.- Chapter 7 – Epilogue.