Part 1 Perspectives on Imperial History; Chapter 1 Can Humpty-Dumpty be put together again? Imperial History in the 1980s, DavidFieldhouse; Chapter 2 Colonialism French-Style, 1945–55: A Backward Glance, KennethRobinson; Chapter 3 Imperial Theory and the Question of Imperialism after Empire, RonaldRobinson; Part 2 Imperial Experience: Sentiment, Demography and Power; Chapter 4 Thomas Day and the Politics of Sentiment, PaulLangford; Chapter 5 The March of Everyman: Mobility and the Imperial Census of 1901, ColinNewbury; Chapter 6 British Foreign Policy and the Influence of Empire, 1870–1920, PaulHayes; Part 3 Interpreting British Decolonization; Chapter 7 Transfer of Power in India: A ‘Re-statement’ of an Alternative Approach, GowherRizvi; Chapter 8 The Mediator's Moment: Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and the Antecedents to the Cripps Mission to India, 1940–42, D. A.Low; Chapter 9 The Imperial Factor in British Strategies from Attlee to Macmillan, 1945–63, R. F.Holland; Chapter 10 British Decolonization since 1945: A Pattern or a Puzzle?, JohnDarwin;