Party Politics and Decolonization: The Conservative Party and British Colonial Policy in Tropical Africa, 1951-1964

ISBN-13: 9780198205050 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 272 str.

Philip Murphy

Opis

Party Politics and Decolonization explores the relationship between Conservative Party politics and British colonial policy in tropical Africa during the unbroken period of Conservative government from 1951 to 1964. Based on recently released documentary evidence, much of it never before published, Philip Murphy's study traces the development of Conservative attitudes towards Britain's role as a colonial power and describes reactions within the party to the rapid British withdrawal from Africa following the 1959 General Election.

Recenzje

valuable monograph ... Some of the most interesting work in this monograph comes out of Murphy's assured consideration of the treatment of colonial issues within the Conservative Party ... This is a tightly-focused and tightly-argued study, based upon solid research and directed by an acutely critical eye. The nuances of its arguments are complemented by a limpidity of prose rare in books which began as doctoral dissertations. With as fine a monograph as this, one is always left wanting more.