ISBN:
9781137394057
,
1137394056
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 288 S.
,
23 cm
Series Statement:
Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg.
DDC:
325/.03094
Keywords:
Decolonization History 20th century
;
Decolonization History
;
20th century
;
Decolonization
;
International relations
;
Africa Relations
;
Europe Relations
;
Europe Relations
;
Africa
;
Africa Relations
;
Europe
;
Africa
;
Europe
;
History
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Afrika
;
Entkolonialisierung
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
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 -- Development, modernization, and the social sciences in the era of decolonization: the examples of British and French Africa / Frederick Cooper -- A modernizing empire? Politics, culture and economy in Portuguese late colonialism / Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and António Costa Pinto -- 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 -- Imperial endings and small states: disorderly decolonization for Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal / Crawford Young -- British, French and Portuguese decolonization compared: political culture and strategic options in multilateral consultations / Bruno Cardoso Reis -- Exporting Britishness: decolonisation in Africa, the British state and its clients / Sarah Stockwell -- 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 -- Inside the parliament of man: decolonization, apartheid, and the remaking of the United Nations, 1945-1970 / Ryan Irwin -- Cold War and decolonisation in the Congo: Lumumba and the neo-colonial transfer of power 1960 / John Kent -- The international dimension of Portuguese colonial crisis, 1961-1968 / Luøs Nuno Rodrigues -- Last days of empire / John Darwin
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Introduction: the ends of empire: chronologies, historiographies, and trajectories
,
Development, modernization, and the social sciences in the era of decolonization: the examples of British and French Africa
,
A modernizing empire? Politics, culture and economy in Portuguese late colonialism
,
Commanders with or without machine-guns: Robert Delavignette and the future of the French-African "imperial nation-state," 1956-58
,
Part II. Comparing endgames: the modi operandi of decolonization ; Imperial endings and small states: disorderly decolonization for Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal
,
British, French and Portuguese decolonization compared: political culture and strategic options in multilateral consultations
,
Exporting Britishness: decolonisation in Africa, the British state and its clients
,
Acceptable levels? The use and threat of violence in the decolonization of British Central Africa, 1953-1965
,
Part III. Confronting internationals: the (geo)politics of decolonization ; Inside the parliament of man: decolonization, apartheid, and the remaking of the United Nations, 1945-1970
,
Cold War and decolonisation in the Congo: Lumumba and the neo-colonial transfer of power 1960
,
The international dimension of Portuguese colonial crisis, 1961-1968
,
Last days of empire
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