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General surveys on the history of Malta are presented in Eric Gerada-Azzopardi, Malta: An Island Republic (1979); Brian Blouet, The Story of Malta, 3rd rev. ed. (1981); and Mario Buhagiar (ed.), Proceedings of History Week 1983 (1984). For the earliest periods, see J.D. Evans, The Prehistoric Antiquities of the Maltese Islands (1971). The Middle Ages are studied in Anthony T. Luttrell (ed.), Medieval Malta: Studies on Malta Before the Knights (1975); Ernle Bradford, The Great Siege: Malta 1565 (1961, reissued 1979); Rose G. Kingsley, The Order of St. John of Jerusalem: Past and Present (1918, reprinted 1978); with the history continued in Roderick Cavaliero, The Last of the Crusaders: The Knights of St. John and Malta in the Eighteenth Century (1960). The modern period is explored in Henry Frendo, Party Politics in a Fortress Colony: The Maltese Experience (1979); R. De Giorgio, A City by an Order (1985); Ernle Bradford, Siege: Malta to 1940–1943 (1985); George Hogan, Malta: The Triumphant Years, 1940–43 (1978); Charles A. Jellison, Besieged: The World War II Ordeal of Malta, 1940–1942 (1984); Dennis Austin, Malta and the End of the Empire (1971); J.J. Cremona, An Outline of the Constitutional Development of Malta Under British Rule (1963); Edith Dobie, Malta's Road to Independence (1967); and Henry Frendo, Malta's Quest for Independence: Reflections on the Course of Maltese History (1989).

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