Ward / Pedersen The break-up of Greater Britain

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4743-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, Band 194, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Imperialism

Turning the conventional Break-Up of Britain narrative inside-out, this book scans the horizon of overseas projections of British identities that unravelled during the decades of global decolonisation

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ward, Stuart

Pedersen, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The anatomy of break-up – Stuart Ward
1 Maintaining racial boundaries: Greater Britain in the Second World War and beyond – Wendy Webster
2 Cut loose: the British in China and the aftermath of empire – Robert Bickers
3 Entangled citizens: the afterlives of empire in the Indian Citizenship Act, 1947–1955 – Kalathmika Natarajan
4 ‘How come England did not know me?’: the ‘rude awakenings’ of the Windrush era – Stuart Ward
5 Indians of Durban, South Africa and the break-up of Greater Britain – Hilary Sapire
6 The birth of 'white' republics and the demise of Greater Britain: the republican referendums in South Africa and Rhodesia – Christian D. Pedersen
7 ‘King’s men’, ‘Queen’s rebels’ and ‘last outposts’: Ulster and Rhodesia in an age of imperial retreat – Donal Lowry
8 The tale of two Commonwealths? The (British) Commonwealth of Nations, decolonisation and the break-up of Greater Britain – Andrew Dilley
9 Greater Britain and its decline: the view from Lambeth – Sarah Stockwell
10 From Pax Britannica to Pax Americana? The end of empire and the collapse of Australia’s Cold War policy – James Curran
11 Boundaries of belonging: differential fees for overseas students in Britain, c. 1967 – Jodi Burkett
12 Persistence and privilege: mass migration from Britain to the Commonwealth, 1945–2000 – Jean P. Smith
13 ‘The mouse that roared’: the Falklands and Gibraltar in Thatcher’s (Greater) Britain – Ezequiel Mercau
14 Falling Rhodes, building bridges, finding paths: decoloniality from Cape Town to Oxford, and back – Stephen Howe
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ward Stuart:

Stuart Ward is Lecturer in History at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London. He also holds a lectureship at the University of Southern DenmarkChristian D. Pedersen is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Southern Denmark

Stuart Ward is Professor and Head of the Saxo Institute for History, Archeology, Ethnology and Classics at Copenhagen University