The break-up of Greater Britain / edited by Christian D. Pedersen and Stuart Ward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pedersen, Christian D., editor.

Ward, Stuart, editor.

Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

Series:

Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)

Studies in imperialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, British--History.

National characteristics, British.

British colonies.

History.

Great Britain--Colonies--History.

Great Britain.

Colonies.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1526147424

9781526147424

OCLC:

1241731418

Publisher Number:

99989036537