Professor Panikos Panayi, a prominent social and cultural historian of Europe, has produced a welcome and timely book on peasant life in Cyprus. He builds upon recent work of historians on social life in Cyprus to show how significant the peasant was in Cypriot society. In so doing, he bridges traditional island history that focuses on the elites, nationalism and the Cyprus conflict, with the everyday social realities of British colonialism upon traditional rural life.

Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA, Professor of British Imperial and Colonial History, Flinders University, Australia

The People of Cyprus under British Rule is a landmark contribution to the social history of Cyprus and the British Empire. Drawing on an extraordinary range of archival and oral sources, Panikos Panayi restores the voices of ordinary villagers to the centre of Cyprus' modern history. Richly researched, deeply humane, and analytically sophisticated, this book will become essential reading for historians of colonialism, rural society, and the eastern Mediterranean

Dr. Stefanos Katsikas, FRHistS, Associate Professor in Modern and Contemporary History, University of Cyprus

This is a masterful work. It gives voice to the experiences of generations of Greek Cypriot peasants under British rule. Much of this history has remained silenced and ignored. Panayi's account seeks to recover these silenced experiences. It is a veritable treasure trove of a book, one that will do much to help us understand the experiences of the people of Cyprus.

John Solomos, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK