The Ends of European Colonial Empires : Cases and Comparisons /: Cases and Comparisons. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and António Costa Pinto.
• Editors: Bandeira Jerónimo, Miguel, 1973-; Pinto, António Costa
• Contents: Introduction: The Ends of Empire: Chronologies, Historiographies, and Trajectories; Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and António Costa Pinto; PART I: COMPETING DEVELOPMENTS: THE IDIOMS OF REFORM AND RESISTANCE; 1. Development, Modernization, and the Social Sciences in the Era of Decolonization: The Examples of British and French Africa; Frederick Cooper; 2. A Modernizing Empire? Politics, Culture and Economy in Portuguese Late Colonialism; Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and António Costa Pinto; 3. Commanders With or Without Machine-Guns: Robert Delavignette and the Future of the French-African 'Imperial Nation-State', 1956-58; Martin Shipway; PART II: COMPARING ENDGAMES: THE MODI OPERANDI OF DECOLONIZATION; 4. Imperial Endings and Small States: Disorderly Decolonization for Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal; Crawford Young; 5. British, French and Portuguese Decolonization Compared: Political Culture and Strategic Options in Multilateral Consultations; Bruno Cardoso Reis; 6. Exporting Britishness: Decolonisation in Africa, the British State and its Clients; Sarah Stockwell; 7. Acceptable Levels? The Use and Threat of Violence in the Decolonization of British Central Africa, 1953-1965; Philip Murphy; PART III: CONFRONTING INTERNATIONALS: THE (GEO)POLITICS OF DECOLONIZATION; 8. Inside the Parliament of Man: Decolonization, Apartheid, and the Remaking of the United Nations, 1945-1970; Ryan Irwin; 9. Cold War and Decolonisation in the Congo: Lumumba and the Neo-colonial Transfer of Power 1960; John Kent; 10. The International Dimension of Portuguese Colonial Crisis, 1961-1968; Luís Nuno Rodrigues; Last Days of Empire; John Darwin;
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 325.03094; Decolonization -- History -- 20th century; Africa/General; Europe/General; Modern/20th Century; Colonialism & Post-Colonialism; Colonialism & imperialism; Civil rights & citizenship; European history; Europe -- Relations -- Africa; Africa -- Relations -- Europe
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137394071; 1137394072
• Related ISBNs: 9781137394057
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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