Ch. One Introduction / Richard Davis -- ch. Two Ireland and End of Empire / Karine Bigand -- ch. Three Holding onto Empire in the Middle East, 1919 -- 1939 / Richard Davis -- ch. Four Decolonisation in South East Asia: Burma and Malaya with notes on Australia and New Zealand / Deirdre Gilfedder -- ch. Five Vestiges of Empire: Britain, the Commonwealth and the Common Market Negotiations (1957 -- 1967) / Richard Davis -- ch. Six The Falklands Issue: Decolonisation Revisited / Marc Fourches -- ch. Seven Decolonisation under Margaret Thatcher, 1979 -- 1984: Rhodesia and Hong Kong / Raphaele Espiet-Kilty
Summary
Few subjects have aroused more controversy in recent years than that of empire, and that of the British Empire in particular. Few other subjects are of greater importance to today's world. How the British Empire was created and maintained, and the impact it had on both the colonised and the colonisers, have been the source of long-running and heated debates amongst historians, politicians and in the media
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