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Andrekos Varnava


Andrekos Varnava is a Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Military History at Flinders University. He is the author of British Imperialism in Cyprus, 1878–1915: The Inconsequential Possession and the editor/co-editor of various volumes, including, most recently, Imperial Expectations and Realities: El Dorados, Utopias and Dystopias. His next book is Serving the Empire in the Great War: The Cypriot Mule Corps, Imperial Loyalty and Silenced Memory, forthcoming in 2016.

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