Deconstructing Empire

ISBN-13: 9783639153934 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 104 str.

Robin Newnham

Opis

Conventional accounts of Britains retreat from empire after the Second World War portray a bankrupt imperial nation forced to surrender her most prized territories. In Deconstructing Empire, author Robin Newnham draws on archival research to argue that, despite these circumstances, the withdrawals from the Indian subcontinent and the Mandate of Palestine were in fact conceived as means of establishing a post imperial order in which Britain would continue to exercise global influence. Newnham also argues that the decisions to withdraw set in motion a process by which different ethnic and religious groups sought to emphasise their claims for just treatment and their right to form independent states. Britains attempts to adjudicate between these competing claims led ultimately to two partitions - one in Palestine immediately overriden by the outbreak of war, the other in the Indian subcontinent creating a dividing line that still stands today. Deconstructing Empire will be of interest to anyone who wants to understand more about the origins of some of the most intractable conflicts in modern international relations.

O autorze

Robin Newnham graduated with a First Class Honours degree in
Modern History from Lincoln College, University of Oxford, and
an M.Phil in International Relations from St. Antony's College,
Oxford. He currently lives in London and works for the United
Kingdom Treasury.