The End of the British Empire : tThe Historical Debate

Within twenty years of victory in the Second World War Britain had ceased to be a world power and her global empire had dissolved into fragments. With what now seems astonishing rapidity, an empire three centuries old, which had reached its greatest extent as late as 1921, was transformed into more...

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Autor principal: Darwin, John, 1948-
Formato: Livre papier
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado em: Oxford (GB) [etc.] : Basil Blackwell copyright 1991.
Colecção:Making contemporary Britain
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Nota: Autres tirages : 1993, 2008, 2009
Autres localisations: Voir dans le Sudoc
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504 |a Bibliogr. p. [123]-126. Index. Chronologie. 
505 0 |a P. 1 -- End of Empire: The Debate. -- P. 10 -- Domestic Politics and Britain's Imperial Retreat. -- P. 40 -- Economics and the End of Empire. -- P. 56 -- International Politics and the End of Empire. -- P. 85 -- The Onslaught of Colonial Nationalism. -- P. 114 -- Conclusion. 
520 |a Within twenty years of victory in the Second World War Britain had ceased to be a world power and her global empire had dissolved into fragments. With what now seems astonishing rapidity, an empire three centuries old, which had reached its greatest extent as late as 1921, was transformed into more than fifty sovereign states. Why did this great transformation come about? Had Britain simply become too weak in a world of superpowers? Had the pressure of colonial, nationalism suddenly become over-whelming? Or had the British themselves decided that they no longer needed an empire, and that their interests were better served by joining the rich man's club of Europe? In this short book, these and other therories are examined critically. The aim is not to present a detailed narrative of Britain's imperial retreat but to introduce the reader to the current state of debate in a rapidly expanding subject. 
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