Decolonization since 1945: The Collapse of European Overseas Empires

ISBN-13: 9780333746004 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 240 str.

John Springhall

Opis

One of the most significant changes of the post-1945 world has been the decline and final dismemberment of European colonial empires in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Pacific, and the Caribbean. In 1939, roughly a third of the world's entire population lived under colonial rule. At the end of the 20th-century, less than one per cent did so. In this study, each major European overseas colony, rather than being subject to chronological or thematic subdivision, receives separate, extensive, and consecutive treatment.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- Chronology.- Abbreviations.- Maps.- Introduction: Definitions and Explanations.- Empire and its Rejection: Before 1945.- South East Asia: The Struggle for European 'Recolonization'.- South Asia, the Middle East and the Mediterranean: British Retreat from Empire.- Africa and the Caribbean: Winds of Change Blow.- White-Settler Africa: Reluctance to Concede Majority Rule.- Overseas Territories and DOM-TOMs: Remnants of Empire.- Conclusions: Explanations Reassessed.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

JOHN SPRINGHALL is Reader in History at the University of Ulster, Coleraine.