End of Empire
Author | : Brian Lapping |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1985 |
ISBN-10 | : 0246119691 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780246119698 |
Rating | : 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
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Author | : Brian Lapping |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1985 |
ISBN-10 | : 0246119691 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780246119698 |
Rating | : 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Author | : Brian Lapping |
Publisher | : New York : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1986-05-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 031225072X |
ISBN-13 | : 9780312250720 |
Rating | : 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Recounts the end of British colonialism and the political events leading to the independence of India, Palestine, Malaya, Iran, Egypt, Aden, Cyprus, Gold Coast, Kenya, and Rhodesia
Author | : Alfred William Brian Simpson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 1188 |
Release | : 2004 |
ISBN-10 | : 0199267898 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780199267897 |
Rating | : 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
The European Convention on Human Rights of 1950 established the most effective international system of human rights protection ever created. This is the first book that gives a comprehensive account of how it came into existence, of the part played in its genesis by the British government, and of its significance for Britain in the period between 1953 and 1966.
Author | : Phillip Buckner |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2007-10-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780774850667 |
ISBN-13 | : 0774850663 |
Rating | : 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Sir John Seeley once wrote that the British Empire was acquired in “a fit of absence of mind.” Whatever the truth of this comment, it is certainly arguable that the Empire was dismantled in such a fit. This collection deals with a neglected subject in post-Confederation Canadian history – the implications to Canada and Canadians of British decolonization and the end of empire. Canada and the End of Empire looks at Canadian diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom and the United States, the Suez crisis, the changing economic relationship with Great Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, the role of educational and cultural institutions in maintaining the British connection, the royal tour of 1959, the decision to adopt a new flag in 1964, the efforts to find a formula for repatriating the constitution, the Canadianization of the Royal Canadian Navy, and the attitude of First Nations to the changed nature of the Anglo-Canadian relationship. Historians in Commonwealth countries tend to view the end of British rule from a nationalist perspective. Canada and the End of Empire challenges this view and demonstrates the centrality of imperial history in Canadian historiography. An important addition to the growing canon of empire studies and imperial history, this book will be of interest to historians of the Commonwealth, and to scholars and students interested in the relationship between colonialism and nationalism.
Author | : Stuart Ward |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2017-03-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781526119629 |
ISBN-13 | : 1526119625 |
Rating | : 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
This book is the first major attempt to examine the cultural manifestations of the demise of imperialism as a social and political ideology in post-war Britain. Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested, the fall of the British Empire came as a profound shock to the British national imagination, and resonated widely in British popular culture. The sheer range of subjects discussed, from the satire boom of the 1960s to the worlds of sport and the arts, demonstrates how profoundly decolonisation was absorbed into the popular consciousness. Offers an extremely novel and provocative interpretation of post-war British cultural history, and opens up a whole new field of enquiry in the history of decolonisation.
Author | : Rachael Gilmour |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2015-07-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781784991791 |
ISBN-13 | : 1784991791 |
Rating | : 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Available in paperback for the first time, this first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Particular genres are also discussed, including the family saga, travel writing, detective fiction and popular romances. All included reflect on the predicament of an England which no longer lies at the centre of imperial power, arriving at a fascinating diversity of conclusions about the meaning and consequences of the end of empire and the privileged location of the novel for discussing what decolonization meant for the domestic English population of the metropole. The book is written in an easy style, unburdened by large sections of abstract reflection. It endeavours to bring alive in a new way the traditions of the English novel.
Author | : Chad Denton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-05-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 1594163340 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781594163340 |
Rating | : 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
A Historical Survey of the Many Ways Empires have Succumbed to External and Internal Pressures There are no self-proclaimed empires today. After the twentieth century, with its worldwide wave of decolonizing and liberation movements, the very word "empire" conjures images of slavery, war, repression, and colonialism. None of this is to say that empires are confined to the past, however. By at least some reasonable definitions, empires do exist today. Many articles and books speak about the decline of the "American Empire," for example, or compare the history of the United States to that of Rome or the British Empire. Yet no public official would speak candidly of American "imperial" interests in the Middle East or use the word "empire" in discussions of the nation's future the same way British politicians did in the twentieth century. In addition, empires don't have to fit the classical Roman mold; there are many kinds of empire and varieties of international authority, such as cultural imperialism and economic imperialism. But it is clear empires do not last, even those that once harnessed great wealth, strong armies, and sophisticated legal systems. InThe Fall of Empires: A Brief History of Imperial Collapse, historian Chad Denton describes the end of seventeen empires throughout world history, from Athens to Qin China, from the Byzantium to the Mughals. He reveals--through stories of conquest, corruption, incompetence, assassination, bigotry, and environmental crisis--how even the most seemingly eternal of empires declined. For Athens and Britain it was military hubris; for Qin China and Russia it was alienating their subjects through oppression; Persia succumbed with the loss of its capital; the Khmer faced ecological catastrophe; while the Aztecs were destroyed by colonial exploitation. None of these events alone explains why the empires fell, but they do provide a glimpse into the often-unpredictable currents of history, which have so far spared no empire. A fascinating and instructive survey, The Fall of Empiresprovides compelling evidence about the fate of centralized regional or global power.
Author | : Christopher Kelly |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2009-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780393061963 |
ISBN-13 | : 0393061965 |
Rating | : 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Conjuring up images of savagery and ferocity, Attila the Hun has become a byword for barbarianism. This history reframes the warrior king as a political strategist who dealt a seemingly invincible empire defeats from which it would never recover.
Author | : Sarah Stockwell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2018-08-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781107070318 |
ISBN-13 | : 1107070317 |
Rating | : 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
The end of empire in Britain itself is illuminated through explorations of its impact on key domestic institutions.
Author | : Deborah Baker |
Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2018-08-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781555979942 |
ISBN-13 | : 1555979947 |
Rating | : 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
A sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the waning of the British Empire in India John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya. Michael Spender was the first to draw a detailed map of the North Face of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers—W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender—achieved literary fame, they vied to be included on an expedition that would deliver Everest’s summit to an Englishman, a quest that had become a metaphor for Britain’s struggle to maintain power over India. To this rivalry was added another: in the summer of 1938 both men fell in love with a painter named Nancy Sharp. Her choice would determine where each man’s wartime loyalties would lie. Set in Calcutta, London, the glacier-locked wilds of the Karakoram, and on Everest itself, The Last Englishmen is also the story of a generation. The cast of this exhilarating drama includes Indian and English writers and artists, explorers and Communist spies, Die Hards and Indian nationalists, political rogues and police informers. Key among them is a highborn Bengali poet named Sudhin Datta, a melancholy soul torn, like many of his generation, between hatred of the British Empire and a deep love of European literature, whose life would be upended by the arrival of war on his Calcutta doorstep. Dense with romance and intrigue, and of startling relevance for the great power games of our own day, Deborah Baker’s The Last Englishmen is an engrossing story that traces the end of empire and the stirring of a new world order.