Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780112905783
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
British Documents on the End of Empire
Author: The Conservative Government and the End of Empire, 1957-1964
Author: The Conservative government and the end of empire 1957-1964
Author: Ronald HyamPublisher: Stationery Office Books
ISBN: 9780112905790
Category : Decolonization
Languages : en
Pages : 1636
Book Description
The Conservative Government and the End of Empire 1957-1964: High policy, political and constitutional change
Author: Ronald HyamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conservatism
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
This volume represents the first in-depth treatment of end of empire duringreg its climactic phase, and from it will emerge a closer understanding of the dynamics involved in decolonisation.
The Routledge Companion to Decolonization
Author: Dietmar RothermundPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134250983
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
This is an essential companion to the process of decolonization – perhaps one of the most important historical processes of the twentieth century. Examining decolonization in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific, the Companion includes: thematic chapters a detailed chronology and thorough glossary biographies of key figures maps. Providing comprehensive coverage of a broad and complex subject area, the guide explores: the global context for decolonization nationalism and the rise of resistance movements resistance by white settlers and moves towards independence Hong Kong and Macau, and decolonization in the late twentieth century debates surrounding neo-colonialism, and the rise of ‘development’ projects and aid the legacy of colonialism in law, education, administration and the military. With suggestions for further reading, and a guide to sources, this is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the colonial and post-colonial eras, and is an indispensable guide to the reshaping of the world in the twentieth century.
American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Region
Author: W. FainPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230613365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
This book critically examines the origins of American diplomacy in the greater Persian Gulf region, arguing that it was the inability of the United States to contend effectively with the disintegration of British imperial authority in the Gulf that eventually led it to assume its current role in the region.
Diplomacy with a Difference: the Commonwealth Office of High Commissioner, 1880-2006
Author: Lorna LloydPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047420594
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Using archival material from four states, interviews and correspondence with diplomats, and a wealth of literature on the Commonwealth and its members, this book explores the evolution of distinctive diplomatic links between Commonwealth states, and their reception into the international system.
The Foreign Policy of the Douglas-Home Government
Author: A. HoltPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137284412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
This book provides an important study of a short-lived government making foreign policy in the shadow of an impending general election. It considers Britain's relations with the United States, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
The Politics and Economics of Decolonization in Africa
Author: Andrew CohenPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838609628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The slow collapse of the European colonial empires after 1945 provides one of the great turning points of twentieth century history. With the loss of India however, the British under Harold Macmillan attempted to enforce a 'second' colonial occupation - supporting the efforts of Sir Andrew Cohen of the Colonial Office to create a Central African Federation. Drawing on newly released archival material, The Politics and Economics of Decolonization offers a fresh examination of Britain's central African territories in the late colonial period and provides a detailed assessment of how events in Britain, Africa and the UN shaped the process of decolonization. The author situates the Central African Federation - which consisted of modern day Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi - in its wider international context, shedding light on the Federation's complex relationships with South Africa, with US Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy and with the expanding United Nations. The result is an important history of the last days of the British Empire and the beginnings of a more independent African continent.
The Empire Project
Author: John DarwinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139482149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 815
Book Description
The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was, above all, a global phenomenon. Its power derived rather less from the assertion of imperial authority than from the fusing together of three different kinds of empire: the settler empire of the 'white dominions'; the commercial empire of the City of London; and 'Greater India' which contributed markets, manpower and military muscle. This unprecedented history charts how this intricate imperial web was first strengthened, then weakened and finally severed on the rollercoaster of global economic, political and geostrategic upheaval on which it rode from beginning to end.