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An Introductory Survey

  • General Editor’s Preface
  • Preface
  1. 1918-39
    1. The European Empires in a Transforming World
      • Population growth and agrarian crisis in Indo-China
      • The formation of a colonial bourgeoisie
      • Religious revival and national renaissance
      • The colonial world and the Great Depression
      • British strategy and imperial reform: Egypt, India and the white Dominions
      • Race politics and the colonial order in Africa
  2. 1939-45
    1. Mobilization, Rejuvenation and Liquidation: Colonialism and Global War
      • The Japanese revolution in East Asia
      • The consequences of imperial mobilization
      • Colonialism and the Anglo-American alliance
      • The bending of the Raj
      • Social change and settler power in Africa
  3. 1945-54
    1. Europe’s Asian Stake: Adaptation, Restoration and Destruction
      • The drive to partitioned independence in India
      • The emergence of the Indonesian Republic
      • The war of colonial restoration in Indo-China
      • Making Malaya safe for decolonization
    2. Britain, Palestine and the Middle East
    3. Experimentation, Consolidation and Deadlock in British Africa
      • Political Change in the Gold Coast: a model defined
      • Racial consolidation in southern Africa
      • Kenya: the deadlocked state
  4. 1954-1965
    1. Order and Chaos: Patterns of Decolonization in French and Belgian Africa
      • French West Africa: the management of decolonization
      • Algeria: the road to Evian
      • The Belgian Congo: the breakdown of a decolonization
    2. Britain: The End of Imperial Statehood
      • Suez 1956: the turning point
      • The changing metropole
    3. The Climax of British Decolonization in Africa
      • Ghana: exemplary decolonization and political myth
      • British Central Africa: the unravelling of Federation
      • Kenya: the struggle for stabilization
    4. British Decolonization in the Mediterranean
      • Cyprus: the fatal nexus – strategy, clericalism and communalism
      • Malta: from George Cross Island to Third Worldism
  5. 1965-81
    1. The Assertion of a Post-Colonial Age
      • East of Suez: the British departure from Aden and the Gulf
      • Southern Rhodesia: the life and death of UDI
      • Portugal’s African empire: revolution from the Metropole
  • Postscript
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