The ends of European colonial empires : cases and comparisons /

Authored by some of the leading experts of the field of decolonization studies, this volume provides a series of historical studies that analyse the diverse trajectories of the Portuguese, Belgian, French, British, and Dutch imperial demise, enabling comparative insights about the similarities and d...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Jerónimo, Miguel Bandeira, 1973- (Autor, Editor ), Pinto, António Costa (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Colección:Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
Temas:
1900-1999
Decolonization > History > 20th century.
Décolonisation > Histoire > 20e siècle.
15.70 history of Europe.
Colonialism & imperialism.
Civil rights & citizenship.
European history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Decolonization
International relations
Entkonsolidierung
National liberation & independence, post-colonialism > Europe > Africa > 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999.
African history > Europe > Africa > 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999.
Europe > Relations > Africa.
Africa > Relations > Europe.
Europe > Relations > Afrique.
Afrique > Relations > Europe.
Africa
Europe
History
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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