| Description |
vii, 209 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction Freddie Madden / Michael Brock -- 1. Perspectives on imperial history Can Humpty-Dumpty be put together again?: imperial history in the 1980s / David Fieldhouse -- Colonialism French-style, 1945-55: a retrospective view / Kenneth Robinson -- Imperial theory and the question of imperialism after empire / Ronald Robinson -- 2. Imperial experience: sentiment, demography and power Thomas Day and the politics of sentiment / Paul Langford -- The march of everyman: mobility and the imperial census of 1901 / Colin Newbury -- British foreign policy and the influence of empire, 1970-1920 <sic> / Paul Hayes -- 3. Interpreting British decolonization Transfer of power in India: a 're-statement' of an alternative approach / Gowher Rizvi -- The mediator's moment: Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and the antecedents to the Cripps mission to India, 1940-42 / D.A. Low -- The imperial factor in British strategies from Attlee to Macmillan, 1845-63 / R.F. Holland -- British decolonization since 1945: a pattern or a puzzle? / John Darwin |
| Notes |
"First appeared in ... Journal of imperial and Commonwealth history, vol. XII, no. 2"--T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
Madden, A. F.
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Colonies -- History.
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Decolonization -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften.
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| Author |
Holland, R. F. (Robert F.)
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Rizvi, Gowher.
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| LC no. |
84001886 |
| ISBN |
0714632422 |
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