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Decolonization and its Impact is a ground-breaking comparative study of decolonization from before the Second World War to the early 1960s.

• Compares key cases across the European colonial empires
• Focuses on the process and impact of decolonization at the level of the 'late colonial state' and of colonial societies
• Presents an original model of decolonization that seeks to reconcile imperial and nationalist perspectives
• Engages with important theoretical approaches
• Makes extensive reference to recent literature on the subject

The collection of essays in this volume offers an overview of scholarly approaches to the ways in which diverse actors, representing the colonised or the colonising nations, or indeed the international community, reacted to colonialism during the lifetime of the modern colonial empires or in their aftermath. The coverage is broad in terms of geographical scope and historical period, with articles on the major colonial empires in Asia and Africa and the imperial centres of Paris, London and Berlin, from the conquests of the late nineteenth century to the period of decolonisation. The selection...

Decolonization and its Impact is a ground-breaking comparative study of decolonization from before the Second World War to the early 1960s.

• Compares key cases across the European colonial empires
• Focuses on the process and impact of decolonization at the level of the 'late colonial state' and of colonial societies
• Presents an original model of decolonization that seeks to reconcile imperial and nationalist perspectives
• Engages with important theoretical approaches
• Makes extensive reference to recent literature on the subject

." . . this is an important book . . . If I have gone on so long, it is out of enthusiasm for the story Shipway has to tell and the skillful way he tells it. This book is extremely well written, and I found reading it almost effortless . . . I recommend this book to anyone interested in the origins of what may one day be considered the second thirty-years war of our 'short' century." - H-Net Reviews ." . . an important contribution to understanding the tangled and tragic unfolding of the modern history of Indochina." - Choice ." . . in this absorbing study, Martin Shipway examines one of...

The collection of essays in this volume offers an overview of scholarly approaches to the ways in which diverse actors, representing the colonised or the colonising nations, or indeed the international community, reacted to colonialism during the lifetime of the modern colonial empires or in their aftermath. The coverage is broad in terms of geographical scope and historical period, with articles on the major colonial empires in Asia and Africa and the imperial centres of Paris, London and Berlin, from the conquests of the late nineteenth century to the period of decolonisation. The selection...