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Ending Empire : Contested Sovereignty and Territorial Partition /
At the dawn of the twentieth century, imperial powers controlled most of the globe. Within a few decades after World War II, many of the great empires had dissolved, and more recently, multinational polities have similarly disbanded. This process of reallocating patterns of authority, from internal...
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2005.
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Table des matières:
- Introduction : contested territories and empire
- Institutional frameworks and territorial policy
- The changing fortunes of empire
- The hexagon or the empire : France and the Algerian quagmire
- Whitehall tacks to the wind of change
- Ranking with Denmark : the Dutch fear of imperial retreat
- The first maritime empire and the last : Portugal in Africa
- Russia retreats from the union
- The Fourth Republic in Jerusalem
- Conclusion : contesting sovereignty in a global system.