The Ends of European Colonial Empires : Cases and Comparisons.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (297 pages)
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies .
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction - The Ends of Empire: Chronologies, Historiographies, and Trajectories -- 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 -- 2 A Modernizing Empire? Politics, Culture, and Economy in Portuguese Late Colonialism -- 3 Commanders with or without Machine-Guns: Robert Delavignette and the Future of the French-African 'Imperial Nation State', 1956-58 -- Part II Comparing Endgames: The Modi Operandi of Decolonization -- 4 Imperial Endings and Small States: Disorderly Decolonization for the Netherlands, Belgium, and Portugal -- 5 Myths of Decolonization: Britain, France, and Portugal Compared -- 6 Exporting Britishness: Decolonization in Africa, the British State and Its Clients -- 7 Acceptable Levels? The Use and Threat of Violence in Central Africa, 1953-64 -- Part III Confronting Internationals: The (Geo)Politics of Decolonization -- 8 Inside the Parliament of Man: Enuga Reddy and the Decolonization of the United Nations -- 9 Lumumba and the 1960 Congo Crisis: Cold War and the Neo-Colonialism of Belgian Decolonization -- 10 The International Dimensions of Portuguese Colonial Crisis -- Last Days of Empire -- Indexes -- Index - Names -- Index - Geo -- Index - Analytic.
This volume provides a multidimensional assessment of the diverse ends of the European colonial empires, addressing different geographies, taking into account diverse chronologies of decolonization, and evaluating the specificities of each imperial configuration under appreciation (Portuguese, Belgian, French, British, Dutch).