Decolonising Europe?: Popular Responses to the End of Empire

ISBN-13: 9781032237251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 298 str.

Berny Sèbe; Matthew G. Stanard

Opis

Decolonising Europe? offers a new paradigm to understand decolonisation in Europe, 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 but also complex intra-European political dynamics.

Spis treści

Introduction: Making Sense of the End of Empire: Fluxes and Flows in Decolonising Europe?

PART I
Meaning: Making Sense of Decolonisation

1. Magna Carta and the End of Empire
2. The End of Empire and the Four Nations
3. Reverberations of Decolonisation: British Approaches to Governance in Post-colonial Africa and the Rise of the ‘Strong Men’

PART II
Media: Words and Images of the End of Empire

4. The Semantics of Decolonisation: The Public Debate on the New Guinea Question in the Netherlands, 1950-62
5. Decolonisation and the Press: A Path to Pluralism in Franco’s Spain, ca. 1950-75

PART III
Memory: Recalling Empire in Post-imperial Worlds

6. Afterlives of Colonialism in the Everyday: Street Names and the (Un)Making of Imperial Debris
7. Passing the Point of No Return: Italy’s Regretted End of Empire and the Mogadishu Massacre of 1948
8. Oases of Imperial Nostalgia: British and French Desert Memories after Empire
9. Questioning Portugal’s Social Cohesion, and Preparing Post-imperial Memory: Returned Settlers (retornados) and Portuguese Society, 1975-80

PART IV
Material Culture: Tactile Rémanences

10. Ephemera and the Dynamics of Colonial Memory
11. Domestic Museums of Decolonisation? Objects, Colonial Officials, and the Afterlives of Empire in Britain
12. Decongolizing Europe? African Art and Post-Colony Belgium

PART V
Momentum: Decolonisation and its Aftermath

Afterword: Diverging Experiences of Decolonisation

O autorze

Berny Sèbe is Senior Lecturer in Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK

Matthew G. Stanard is Professor of History at Berry College, USA