Decolonising Europe? : popular responses to the end of empire /

"Decolonising Europe? Popular Responses to the End of Empire offers a new paradigm to understand decolonisation in Europe by showing how it was fundamentally a fluid process of fluxes and refluxes involving not only transfers of populations, ideas and socio-cultural practices across continents...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Sèbe, Berny (Editor), Stanard, Matthew G. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Series:Empires and the making of the modern world, 1650-2000.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Decolonization > History.
Postcolonialism > Social aspects.
Collective memory > Europe.
Imperialism > History > 20th century.
Décolonisation > Histoire.
Postcolonialisme > Aspect social.
Mémoire collective > Europe.
Impérialisme > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY / General
HISTORY / Africa / General
HISTORY / Asia / General
Collective memory
Decolonization
Imperialism
Postcolonialism > Social aspects
Social conditions
Europe > Colonies > Social conditions > 20th century.
Europe > Colonies > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Europe
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Making sense of the end of empire : fluxes and flows in decolonising Europe? / Berny Sèbe and Matthew G. Stanard
  • Magna Carta and the end of empire / Amanda Behm
  • The end of empire and the four nations / John M. MacKenzie
  • Reverberations of decolonisation : British approaches to governance in post-colonial Africa and the rise of the 'strong men' / Christopher Prior
  • The semantics of decolonisation : the public debate on the New Guinea question in the Netherlands, 1950-62 / Vincent Kuitenbrouwer
  • Decolonisation and the press : a path to pluralism in Franco's Spain, ca. 1950-75 / Sasha D. Pack
  • Afterlives of colonialism in the everyday : street names and the (un)making of imperial debris / Britta Schilling
  • Passing the point of no return : Italy's regretted end of empire and the Mogadishu Massacre of 1948 / Giuseppe Finaldi
  • Oases of imperial nostalgia : British and French Desert memories after empire / Berny Sèbe
  • Questioning Portugal's social cohesion, and preparing post-imperial memory : returned settlers (retornados) and Portuguese society, 1975-80 / Isabel dos Santos Lourenço and Alexander Keese
  • Ephemera and the dynamics of colonial memory / Charles Forsdick
  • Domestic museums of decolonisation? Objects, colonial officials, and the afterlives of empire in Britain / Chris Jeppesen and Sarah Longair
  • Decongolizing Europe? African art and post-colony Belgium / Matthew G. Stanard
  • Afterword. Diverging experiences of decolonisation / Wm. Roger Louis.

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