Europe after empire : decolonization, society, and culture / Elizabeth Buettner.
| Uniform Title: | New approaches to European history.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | New approaches to European history.
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| Physical Description: | xii, 551 pages : illustrations . |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction
- PART I. DECOLONIZATION FOR COLONIZERS : EUROPE'S TRANSITION TO THE POSTCOLONIAL ERA. Myths of continuity and European exceptionalism : Britain, decolonization, and the Commonwealth family ideal
- Occupation, resistance, and liberation : the road to Dutch decolonization
- Soldiering on in the shadow of war : decolonizing la Plus Grande France
- Long live the king? : Belgium, the monarchy, and the Congo between the Second World War and the decolonization years
- From rose-coloured map to Carnation Revolution : Portugal's overseas amputations
- PART II. MIGRATIONS AND MULTICULTURALISMS IN POSTCOLONIAL EUROPE. Ending empires, coming home : the ghost worlds of European colonial repatriates
- Ethnic minority immigration from empires lost
- Reconfiguring nations : identities, belonging, and multiculturalism in the wake of postcolonial migration
- PART III. MEMORIES, LEGACIES, AND FURTHER DIRECTIONS. Remembering and forgetting empires
- EPILOGUE : THOUGHTS TOWARD NEW HISTORIES OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPE.