Author: John Darwin
Publisher: Palgrave He, Print UK
ISBN: 9780333292563
Category : Decolonization
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Presented chronologically, this study focuses on the post war break-up of the British Empire which began with the abandonment of the Raj in India and the eventual entry into the European Community. The author examines the significance and the reasons behind this imperial retreat.
Britain and Decolonisation
Author: John Darwin
Publisher: Palgrave He, Print UK
ISBN: 9780333292563
Category : Decolonization
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Presented chronologically, this study focuses on the post war break-up of the British Empire which began with the abandonment of the Raj in India and the eventual entry into the European Community. The author examines the significance and the reasons behind this imperial retreat.
Publisher: Palgrave He, Print UK
ISBN: 9780333292563
Category : Decolonization
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Presented chronologically, this study focuses on the post war break-up of the British Empire which began with the abandonment of the Raj in India and the eventual entry into the European Community. The author examines the significance and the reasons behind this imperial retreat.
Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa
Author: Andrew W.M. Smith
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1911307746
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of ‘late colonial shift’ after 1945. Rather than view decolonization as an inevitable process, the contributors together explore the crucial historical moments in which change was negotiated, compromises were made, and debates were staged. Three core themes guide the analysis: development, contingency and entanglement. The chapters consider the ways in which decolonization was governed and moderated by concerns about development and profit. A complementary focus on contingency allows deeper consideration of how colonial powers planned for ‘colonial futures’, and how divergent voices greeted the end of empire. Thinking about entanglements likewise stresses both the connections that existed between the British and French empires in Africa, and those that endured beyond the formal transfer of power.
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1911307746
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of ‘late colonial shift’ after 1945. Rather than view decolonization as an inevitable process, the contributors together explore the crucial historical moments in which change was negotiated, compromises were made, and debates were staged. Three core themes guide the analysis: development, contingency and entanglement. The chapters consider the ways in which decolonization was governed and moderated by concerns about development and profit. A complementary focus on contingency allows deeper consideration of how colonial powers planned for ‘colonial futures’, and how divergent voices greeted the end of empire. Thinking about entanglements likewise stresses both the connections that existed between the British and French empires in Africa, and those that endured beyond the formal transfer of power.
Cold War and Decolonisation
Author: Andrea Benvenuti
Publisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 9814722197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Australia’s policy towards Britain’s end of empire in Southeast Asia influenced the course of this decolonization in the region. In this book, Andrea Benvenuti discusses the development of Australia’s foreign and defence policies towards Malaya and Singapore in light of the redefinition of Britain’s imperial role in Southeast Asia and the formation of new post-colonial states. Placed within the emerging literature on the global impact of the Cold War, the book sheds new light on the choices made – by Australia, by Britain and the new emerging states – in these crucial years.
Publisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 9814722197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Australia’s policy towards Britain’s end of empire in Southeast Asia influenced the course of this decolonization in the region. In this book, Andrea Benvenuti discusses the development of Australia’s foreign and defence policies towards Malaya and Singapore in light of the redefinition of Britain’s imperial role in Southeast Asia and the formation of new post-colonial states. Placed within the emerging literature on the global impact of the Cold War, the book sheds new light on the choices made – by Australia, by Britain and the new emerging states – in these crucial years.
Britain's Declining Empire
Author: Ronald Hyam
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521866499
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
A major reassessment of the end of the British empire, focusing on the period after 1945, first published in 2007.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521866499
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
A major reassessment of the end of the British empire, focusing on the period after 1945, first published in 2007.
Decolonisation
Author: Nicholas White
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317887905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Concise and accessible, this guide provides an overview of the process of British decolonisation. Dr White syntheses recent historical debate by looking at the demise of British imperial power from three main perspectives: the shifting emphases of British imperial policy; the rise of populist, colonial nationalism, and the international political, strategic, and economic environment dominated by the USA and the USSR. The book also positions the British experience within the context of European decolonisation and contains many documents which have only recently become available. Introducing the reader to the key debates it the ideal introductory text on the subject.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317887905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Concise and accessible, this guide provides an overview of the process of British decolonisation. Dr White syntheses recent historical debate by looking at the demise of British imperial power from three main perspectives: the shifting emphases of British imperial policy; the rise of populist, colonial nationalism, and the international political, strategic, and economic environment dominated by the USA and the USSR. The book also positions the British experience within the context of European decolonisation and contains many documents which have only recently become available. Introducing the reader to the key debates it the ideal introductory text on the subject.
Empires of the Mind
Author: Robert Gildea
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110715958X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea dissects the legacy of empire for the former colonial powers and their subjects.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110715958X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea dissects the legacy of empire for the former colonial powers and their subjects.
The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire
Author: Martin Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198713193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 801
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire offers the most comprehensive treatment of the causes, course, and consequences of the collapse of empires in the twentieth century. The volume's contributors convey the global reach of decolonization, analysing the ways in which European, Asian, and African empires disintegrated over the past century.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198713193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 801
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire offers the most comprehensive treatment of the causes, course, and consequences of the collapse of empires in the twentieth century. The volume's contributors convey the global reach of decolonization, analysing the ways in which European, Asian, and African empires disintegrated over the past century.
Afterlife of Empire
Author: Jordanna Bailkin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520289471
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
This book investigates how decolonization transformed British society in the 1950s and 1960s, and examines the relationship between the postwar and the postimperial.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520289471
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
This book investigates how decolonization transformed British society in the 1950s and 1960s, and examines the relationship between the postwar and the postimperial.
Making Thatcher's Britain
Author: Ben Jackson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107012384
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This book situates the controversial Thatcher era in the political, social, cultural and economic history of modern Britain.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107012384
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This book situates the controversial Thatcher era in the political, social, cultural and economic history of modern Britain.
British Culture After Empire
Author: Josh Doble
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781526182548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book follows the afterlives of empire from 1945 to present day, providing an interdisciplinary analysis of how the legacy of empire continues to shape the cultures, politics, spaces and memories of contemporary Britain. The essays it contains illustrate this with reference to a series of local histories, individual texts and institutions.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781526182548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book follows the afterlives of empire from 1945 to present day, providing an interdisciplinary analysis of how the legacy of empire continues to shape the cultures, politics, spaces and memories of contemporary Britain. The essays it contains illustrate this with reference to a series of local histories, individual texts and institutions.