The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire

ISBN-13: 9780198713197 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 760 str.

Martin Thomas; Andrew Thompson

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Martin Thomas is Professor of Imperial History and Director of the Centre for Histories of Violence and Conflict at the University of Exeter. A specialist in the politics of contested decolonization, his most recent publications are Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918-1940 (2012), Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire (2014), and, with co-author Richard Toye, Arguing about Empire: Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France (2017). He is an Independent Social Research Foundation Fellow and coordinator of a Leverhulme Trust research network, Understanding Insurgencies: Resonances from the Colonial Past. Andrew Thompson's previous publications include The Empire Strikes Back? The Impact of Imperialism on Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century (2005), Empire and Globalisation. Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c.1850-1914 (2010), and an edited collection, Britain's Experience of Empire in the Twentieth Century (2011). He is currently Professor of Global and Imperial History at the University of Oxford and Co-Director of the Oxford Centre for Global History. He is a Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College. He serves on the editorial boards of South African Historical Journal and Twentieth Century British History.