Author : Frank Heinlein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 25,76 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1135284342
This book is an in-depth study of the importnace of the Empire-Commonwealth in the two decades after WWII for Britain's self-image as a great power. By studying a wide range of debates on general and specific imperial problems, the book highlights the "official mind" of decolonization - and of late imperialism.
Author : Frank Heinlein
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780714652207
This is a study of the views held by British policy-makers on the Empire-Commonwealth from 1945 to 1963.
Author : A N Porter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,31 MB
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1349187690
Author : Charles Parkinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,92 MB
Release : 2007-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0199231931
"It presents an alternative perspective on the end of Empire by focusing upon one aspect of constitutional decolonization and the importance of the local legal culture in determining each dependency's constitutional settlement, and provides a series of empirical case studies on the incorporation of human rights instruments into domestic constitutions when negotiated between a state and its dependencies. More generally this book highlights Britain's human rights legacy to its former Empire."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Nicholas White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 24,69 MB
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1317887905
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.
Author : Ronald Hyam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 2007-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1316025659
An authoritative political history of one of the world's most important empires on the road to decolonisation. Ronald Hyam's 2007 book offers a major reassessment of the end of empire which combines a study of British policymaking with case studies on the experience of decolonization across Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. He describes the dysfunctional policies of an imperial system coping with postwar, interwar and wartime crises from 1918 to 1945 but the main emphasis is on the period after 1945 and the gradual unravelling of empire as a result of international criticism, and the growing imbalance between Britain's capabilities and its global commitments. He analyses the transfers of power from India in 1947 to Swaziland in 1968, the major crises such as Suez and assesses the role of leading figures from Churchill, Attlee and Eden to Macmillan and Wilson. This is essential reading for scholars and students of empire and decolonisation.
Author : Robert Gildea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 110715958X
Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea dissects the legacy of empire for the former colonial powers and their subjects.
Author : Frank Heinlein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 15,54 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1135284415
This book is an in-depth study of the importnace of the Empire-Commonwealth in the two decades after WWII for Britain's self-image as a great power. By studying a wide range of debates on general and specific imperial problems, the book highlights the "official mind" of decolonization - and of late imperialism.
Author : Peter Brooke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 3319651609
This book throws new light on the impact of informal ‘old boy’ networks on British decolonisation. Duncan Sandys was one of the leading Conservative politicians of the middle decades of twentieth-century Britain. He was also a key figure in the Harold Macmillan’s ‘Winds of Change’ policy of decolonisation, serving as Secretary for the Colonies and Commonwealth Relations from 1960 to 1964. When he lost office he fought strenuously to undermine the new Labour Government’s attempts to accelerate colonial withdrawal and improve race relations in Britain. Sandys developed important private business interests in Africa and intervened personally through both public and official channels on the question of Rhodesia, Commonwealth immigration and the ‘East of Suez’ withdrawal in the late 1960s. This book will appeal to students of decolonisation and twentieth-century British politics alike.
Author : Andrew W.M. Smith
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1911307746
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.
