European Decolonization
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Author | : Robert F. Holland |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 1985-03-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349177733 |
One of the most dramatically significant themes of the twentieth century has been the decline and final dismemberment of the European colonial empires. This book outlines the general features which influence this decline and, by concentrating on a series of case studies, emphasises the varieties of experience within this broad historical process. While primarily concerned with events in the British Empire, the largest of the imperial systems, Dr Holland also considers developments in the French, Belgian, Dutch and Portuguese dependencies. The chronologically arranged sections focus on the sources of weakness in the European empires between 1918 and 1939; the impact of the Second World War; the upheavals of the post-war crisis; the move to decolonization in the later 1950's and early 1960's; and the subsequent realignment of relations between advanced and non-advanced nations. The aim of this study is to provide an introductory text for sixth form and university students on a vital dimension of change within international relationships in twentieth century.
Author | : Katrin Sieg |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2021-12-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472055100 |
How do museums confront the violence of European colonialism, conquest, dispossession, enslavement, and genocide?
Author | : Martin Thomas |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2017-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351938681 |
This collection brings together twenty-one key articles that explore the nature and impact of colonial withdrawal. Ranging across all the European colonial powers, the articles discuss various aspects of decolonization, including the role of political violence, changing popular attitudes to empire and the inter-actions between colonial conflict and Cold War.
Author | : Martin Thomas |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Academic |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-03-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780340731277 |
This examination of the forces that precipitated the twentieth century collapse of all Europe's late colonial empires includes the fate of the British, French, Dutch, Belgian and Portuguese colonial empires. Investigated individually and comparatively, it addresses an important historic topic and synthesizes conventional thought on imperialism and comparative decolonization. It also offers new perspectives in contemporary European history, international politics and the legacies of colonialism across the developing world. Ranging from the wave of European imperial expansion in the aftermath of World War I to the collapse of the last settler colonies in Africa during the 1960s and 1970s, the authors assess decolonization as a long-term process. They examine the impact of significant changes in the world in the twentieth century and shifting popular attitudes towards colonialism both within European imperial nation states and within the colonies. As the economics of empire shifted with a change in global markets, colonial urbanization and the growth of colonial organized labor, so to did the politics of empire. Also explored is the significant role of Africans and Asians as agents of colonial change, highlighting the parts played by anti-colonial movements, popular protest, and armed insurgency as catalysts of Europe's imperial collapse. The authors balance recent theories of post-colonial history and global history with traditional fields of diplomatic and economic history for a wide-ranging, comprehensive view of a complex area of study.
Author | : Elizabeth Buettner |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 565 |
Release | : 2016-03-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521113865 |
A pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present.
Author | : Berny Sèbe |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2020-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0429639376 |
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 sociocultural practices across continents but also complex intra-European dynamics at a time of political convergence following the Treaty of Rome. Decolonisation was neither a process of sudden, rapid changes to European cultures nor one of cultural inertia, but a development marked by fluidity, movement, and dynamism. Rather than being a static process where Europe’s (former) metropoles and their peoples ‘at home’ reacted to the end of empire ‘out there’, decolonisation translated into new realities for Europe’s cultures, societies, and politics as flows, ebbs, fluxes, and cultural refluxes reshaped both former colonies and former metropoles. The volume’s contributors set out a carefully crafted panorama of decolonisation’s sequels in European popular culture by means of in-depth studies of specific cases and media, analysing the interwoven meaning, momentum, memory, material culture, and migration patterns of the end of empire across eight major European countries. The revised meaning of ‘decolonisation’ that emerges will challenge scholars in several fields, and the panorama of new research in the book charts paths for new investigations. The question mark in the title asks not only how European cultures experienced the ‘end of empire’ but also the extent to which this is still a work in progress.
Author | : M. E. Chamberlain |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1991-01-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780631218043 |
This book charts the decolonization of Asia, Africa and the Caribbean from 1945 to the present day, analysing the ways in which countries separated themselves from the control of the European Powers.
Author | : Tony Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
The first part of this book sketches quickly the roots of decolonization in the interwar period. Parts two-four review successively the British, French, Dutch, and Belgian experiences with decolonization. Part five raises the issue of how complete this process has actually been by taking up the controversial question of neo-colonialism. -- Introduction (p. xxiii).
Author | : Encarnacion Gutierrez Rodriguez |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2016-05-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317153766 |
Decolonizing European Sociology builds on the work challenging the androcentric, colonial and ethnocentric perspectives eminent in mainstream European sociology by identifying and describing the processes at work in its current critical transformation. Divided into sections organized around themes like modernity, border epistemology, migration and 'the South', this book considers the self-definition and basic concepts of social sciences through an assessment of the new theoretical developments, such as postcolonial theory and subaltern studies, and whether they can be described as the decolonization of the discipline. With contributions from a truly international team of leading social scientists, this volume constitutes a unique and tightly focused exploration of the challenges presented by the decolonization of the discipline of sociology.
Author | : Elizabeth Buettner |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 565 |
Release | : 2016-03-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 131659470X |
Europe after Empire is a pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present. Elizabeth Buettner charts the long-term development of post-war decolonization processes as well as the histories of inward and return migration from former empires which followed. She shows that not only were former colonies remade as a result of the path to decolonization: so too was Western Europe, with imperial traces scattered throughout popular and elite cultures, consumer goods, religious life, political formations, and ideological terrains. People were also inwardly mobile, including not simply Europeans returning 'home' but Asians, Africans, West Indians, and others who made their way to Europe to forge new lives. The result is a Europe fundamentally transformed by multicultural diversity and cultural hybridity and by the destabilization of assumptions about race, culture, and the meanings of place, and where imperial legacies and memories live on.