Allies at the End of Empire: Loyalists, Nationalists and the Cold War, 1945-76

ISBN-13: 9780367251703 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 168 str.

David M. Anderson; Daniel Branch

Opis

This book examines the histories of the local militias who joined the counter-insurgency campaigns of the European powers after 1945 to fight against nationalists. It was originally published as a special issue of the International History Review.

Spis treści

Introduction: Allies at the End of Empire—Loyalists, Nationalists and the Cold War, 1945–76  1. Irregular Auxiliaries after 1945  2. ‘Gathered on the Point of a Bayonet’: the Negara Pasundan and the Colonial Defence of Indonesia, 1946–50  3. Making the Loyalist Bargain: Surrender, Amnesty and Impunity in Kenya’s Decolonization, 1952–63  4. Toads and Informers: How the British Treated their Collaborators during the Cyprus Emergency, 1955–9  5. Reprisal Violence and the Harkis in French Algeria, 1962  6. The suppression of the Congo rebellions and the rise of Mobutu, 1963–5  7. Saved by the Civil War: African ‘Loyalists’ in the Portuguese Armed Forces and Angola’s Transition to Independence  8. Out of Arabia: British Strategy and the Fate of Local Forces in Aden, South Yemen, and Oman, 1967–76

O autorze

David M. Anderson is Professor of African History in the Global History and Culture Centre at the University of Warwick, UK. He has published widely on the history and politics of eastern Africa, including The Khat Controversy (2007), and Histories of the Hanged (2005). He is the editor of The Routledge Handbook of African Politics (2013). He is currently engaged in wider research on the history of empire and violence.

Daniel Branch is Professor of Modern African History at the University of Warwick, UK. He is theauthor of Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya (2009), and Kenya: Between Hope and Despair 1963-2012 (2011). He is now researching a book about the life of Tom Mboya, Kenya’s most charismatic political leader of the 1960s.