Ward / Pedersen The break-up of Greater Britain

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4741-7
Verlag: Penguin Random House South Africa
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 194, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Imperialism

This is the first major attempt to view the break-up of Britain as a global phenomenon, incorporating peoples and cultures of all races and creeds that became embroiled in the liquidation of the British Empire in the decades after the Second World War. A team of leading historians are assembled here to view a familiar problem through an unfamiliar lens, ranging from India, to China, Southern Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the Falklands, Gibraltar and the United Kingdom itself. At a time when trace-elements of Greater Britain have resurfaced in British politics, animating the febrile polemics of Brexit, these essays offer a sober historical perspective. More than perhaps at any other time since the empire's precipitate demise, it is imperative to gain a fresh purchase on the global challenges to British identities in the twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ward, Stuart

Pedersen, Christian