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The Ends of European Colonial Empires -

The Ends of European Colonial Empires

Cases and Comparisons
Online Resource
XII, 288 Seiten
2016
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Hersteller)
978-1-137-39406-4 (ISBN)
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This volume provides a multidimensional assessment of the diverse ends of the European colonial empires, addressing different geographies, taking into account diverse chronologies of decolonization, and evaluating the specificities of each imperial configuration under appreciation (Portuguese, Belgian, French, British, Dutch).

Introduction: The Ends of Empire: Chronologies, Historiographies, and Trajectories; Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and António Costa Pinto PART I: COMPETING DEVELOPMENTS: THE IDIOMS OF REFORM AND RESISTANCE 1. Development, Modernization, and the Social Sciences in the Era of Decolonization: The Examples of British and French Africa; Frederick Cooper 2. A Modernizing Empire? Politics, Culture and Economy in Portuguese Late Colonialism; Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and António Costa Pinto 3. Commanders With or Without Machine-Guns: Robert Delavignette and the Future of the French-African 'Imperial Nation-State', 1956-58; Martin Shipway PART II: COMPARING ENDGAMES: THE MODI OPERANDI OF DECOLONIZATION 4. Imperial Endings and Small States: Disorderly Decolonization for Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal; Crawford Young 5. British, French and Portuguese Decolonization Compared: Political Culture and Strategic Options in Multilateral Consultations; Bruno Cardoso Reis 6. Exporting Britishness: Decolonisation in Africa, the British State and its Clients; Sarah Stockwell 7. Acceptable Levels? The Use and Threat of Violence in the Decolonization of British Central Africa, 1953-1965; Philip Murphy PART III: CONFRONTING INTERNATIONALS: THE (GEO)POLITICS OF DECOLONIZATION 8. Inside the Parliament of Man: Decolonization, Apartheid, and the Remaking of the United Nations, 1945-1970; Ryan Irwin 9. Cold War and Decolonisation in the Congo: Lumumba and the Neo-colonial Transfer of Power 1960; John Kent 10. The International Dimension of Portuguese Colonial Crisis, 1961-1968; Luís Nuno Rodrigues Last Days of Empire; John Darwin

Erscheint lt. Verlag 16.2.2016
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
Zusatzinfo XII, 288 p.
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeines / Lexika
Schlagworte Africa • Chronology • Cities • colonial empires • Colonialism • Colonization • comparative history • Decolonisation • Decolonization • Empire • Europe • Historiography • History • imperialism • Nation • resistance
ISBN-10 1-137-39406-4 / 1137394064
ISBN-13 978-1-137-39406-4 / 9781137394064
Zustand Neuware
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