Decolonisation: The British Experience since 1945 is a concise and accessible introduction which introduces students to this often dramatic story of colonial wars and emergencies, and fraught international relations.
The 2nd edition provides an overview of the process of British decolonisation. The eclipse of the British Empire has been one of the central features of post-war international history. At the end of the Second World War the empire still spanned the globe and yet by the mid-1960s most of Britain’s major dependencies had achieved independence.
Table of Contents:
Introduction to series
Acknowledgements
Publisher’s acknowledgements
Chronology
Who’s who
Maps
PART ONE INTRODUCTION
1 The Setting and the Problem
PART TWO IMPERIAL POLICY AND DECOLONISATION
2 Labour’s Empire, 1945-51
3 Shifting Perspectives? The 1950s and the 1960s
PART THREE NATIONALISM AND DECOLONISATION
4 Changing Colonial Societies
PART FOUR INTERNATIONAL CHANGE AND DECOLONISATION
5 The British Empire in the New World Order
6 Suez 1956: Did it Matter?
PART FIVE ASSESSMENT
7 British Decolonisation in Comparative Perspective
PART SIX DOCUMENTS
References
Index
About the Author :
Nicholas J. White is Reader in Imperial & Commonwealth History at Liverpool John Moores University. His previous books include Business, Government and the End of Empire: Malaya, 1942-57, Oxford University Press, 1996 and British Business in Post-Colonial Malaysia, 1957-70: ‘neo-colonialism’ or ‘disengagement’?, Routledge, 2004.
