Lord Hailey, the Colonial Office and the Politics of Race and Empire in the Seco: The Loss of White Prestige

ISBN-13: 9780312232146 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 221 str.

Suke Walton; Suke Wolton

Opis

This book examines the response of British policy-makers to the collapse of belief in racial superiority, and with it the ideological basis of empire, following the fall of Singapore in 1942. The book studies the Anglo-American debate in which British officials, led by Lord Hailey, countered American criticisms of imperial rule by emphasizing economic development and peace-keeping as new, non-racial justifications for western authority. These are themes that have retained a powerful resonance on the post-war world.

O autorze

Suke Wolton is a Junior Research Fellow at St. Cross College, Oxford.