The End Of The British Empire
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Author | : Sarah Stockwell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2018-08-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107070317 |
The end of empire in Britain itself is illuminated through explorations of its impact on key domestic institutions.
Author | : John Darwin |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2006-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780631164289 |
Within twenty years of victory in the Second World War Britain had ceased to be a world power and her global empire has dissolved into fragments. With what now seems astonishing rapidity, and 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 overwhelming? Or had the British themselves decided that they no longer needed an empire, and that interests were better served by joining the rich man's club of Europe? In this short book, these and other theories 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.
Author | : Piers Brendon |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 850 |
Release | : 2010-02-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307388417 |
A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD NOTABLE BOOK After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. Yet it grew to become the greatest, most diverse empire the world had seen. Then, within a generation, the mighty structure collapsed, a rapid demise that left an array of dependencies and a contested legacy: at best a sporting spirit, a legal code and a near-universal language; at worst, failed states and internecine strife. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire covers a vast canvas, which Brendon fills with vivid particulars, from brief lives to telling anecdotes to comic episodes to symbolic moments.
Author | : Peter Clarke |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2010-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1596917423 |
A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British empire and the moment when America became a world superpower. "I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." Winston Churchill's famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to turn, pugnaciously affirmed his loyalty to the world-wide institution that he had served for most of his life. Britain fought and sacrificed on a worldwide scale to defeat Hitler and his allies-and won. Yet less than five years after Churchill's defiant speech, the British Empire effectively ended with Indian Independence in August 1947 and the end of the British Mandate in Palestine in May 1948. As the sun set on Britain's Empire, the age of America as world superpower dawned. How did this rapid change of fortune come about? Peter Clarke's book is the first to analyze the abrupt transition from Rule Britannia to Pax Americana. His swiftly paced narrative makes superb use of letters and diaries to provide vivid portraits of the figures around whom history pivoted: Churchill, Gandhi, Roosevelt, Stalin, Truman, and a host of lesser-known figures though whom Clarke brilliantly shows the human dimension of epochal events. The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire is a captivating work of popular history that shows how the events that followed the war reshaped the world as profoundly as the conflict itself.
Author | : Stuart Ward |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2017-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526119625 |
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 | : Alfred William Brian Simpson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 1188 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199267897 |
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 | : Robert W. Tucker |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801827808 |
"This book was presented in part as the 1981 Jefferson Memorial Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, May 19-21, 1981"--T.p. verso.
Author | : William W. Lace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Commonwealth countries |
ISBN | : 9781560066835 |
Examines the events leading to expansion of the British Empire and the variety of reasons for its eventual decline in the twentieth century.
Author | : Philip Murphy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2013-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199214239 |
Examines the relationship between the British government, the Palace, and the modern Commonwealth since 1945 and argues that the monarchy's relationship with the Commonwealth, which was initially promoted by the UK as a means of strengthening imperial ties, increasingly became an impediment to British foreign policy.
Author | : John Darwin |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2012-09-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1846146712 |
A both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked, from Wolfson Prize-winning author and historian John Darwin The British Empire shaped the world in countless ways: repopulating continents, carving out nations, imposing its own language, technology and values. For perhaps two centuries its expansion and final collapse were the single largest determinant of historical events, and it remains surrounded by myth, misconception and controversy today. John Darwin's provocative and richly enjoyable book shows how diverse, contradictory and in many ways chaotic the British Empire really was, controlled by interests that were often at loggerheads, and as much driven on by others' weaknesses as by its own strength.