Books

2015

Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo & António Costa Pinto (edited by)

The Ends of European Colonial Empires: Cases and Comparisons (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series)

Hampshire ,  Palgrave Macmillan

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Synopsis

 Authored by some of the leading experts of the field of decolonization studies, this volume provides a series of historical studies that analyse the diverse trajectories of the Portuguese, Belgian, French, British, and Dutch imperial demise, enabling comparative insights about the similarities and differences between the main events and processes involved. Addressing different geographies and taking into account diverse chronologies of decolonization, this volume explores the intersections between imperial and colonial endgames and histories of cold war, of development, of labour, of human rights and of international organizations, therefore elucidating their connection with wider, global historical processes. The volume concludes with an essay by John Darwin, 'Last Days of Empire'.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Ends of Empire: Chronologies, Historiographies, and Trajectories

Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and António Costa Pinto

PART I: COMPETING DEVELOPMENTS: THE IDIOMS OF REFORM AND RESISTANCE

1. Development, Modernization, and the Social Sciences in the Era of Decolonization: The Examples of British and French Africa

Frederick Cooper

2. A Modernizing Empire? Politics, Culture and Economy in Portuguese Late Colonialism

Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and António Costa Pinto

3. Commanders With or Without Machine-Guns: Robert Delavignette and the Future of the French-African 'Imperial Nation-State', 1956-58

Martin Shipway

PART II: COMPARING ENDGAMES: THE MODI OPERANDI OF DECOLONIZATION

4. Imperial Endings and Small States: Disorderly Decolonization for Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal

Crawford Young

5. British, French and Portuguese Decolonization Compared: Political Culture and Strategic Options in Multilateral Consultations

Bruno Cardoso Reis

6. Exporting Britishness: Decolonisation in Africa, the British State and its Clients

Sarah Stockwell

7. Acceptable Levels? The Use and Threat of Violence in the Decolonization of British Central Africa, 1953-1965

Philip Murphy

PART III: CONFRONTING INTERNATIONALS: THE (GEO)POLITICS OF DECOLONIZATION

8. Inside the Parliament of Man: Decolonization, Apartheid, and the Remaking of the United Nations, 1945-1970

Ryan Irwin

9. Cold War and Decolonisation in the Congo: Lumumba and the Neo-colonial Transfer of Power 1960

John Kent

10. The International Dimension of Portuguese Colonial Crisis, 1961-1968

Luís Nuno Rodrigues

Last Days of Empire

John Darwin

Contact Information

Antonio Costa Pinto   |   acpinto@ics.ul.pt
Institute of Social Sciences   |   Av. Professor Anibal Betencourt, 9   |   1600-189 Lisbon   |   Portugal