The ends of European colonial empires : cases and comparisons / edited by Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal and António Costa Pinto, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
| Uniform Title: | Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
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| Language: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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| Series: | Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
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| Physical Description: | xii, 288 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
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
- Development, modernization, and the social sciences in the era of decolonization: the examples of British and French Africa / Frederick Cooper
- A modernizing empire? Politics, culture and economy in Portuguese late colonialism / Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and António Costa Pinto
- 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
- Imperial endings and small states: disorderly decolonization for Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal / Crawford Young
- British, French and Portuguese decolonization compared: political culture and strategic options in multilateral consultations / Bruno Cardoso Reis
- Exporting Britishness: decolonisation in Africa, the British state and its clients / Sarah Stockwell
- 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
- Inside the parliament of man: decolonization, apartheid, and the remaking of the United Nations, 1945-1970 / Ryan Irwin
- Cold War and decolonisation in the Congo: Lumumba and the neo-colonial transfer of power 1960 / John Kent
- The international dimension of Portuguese colonial crisis, 1961-1968 / Luøs Nuno Rodrigues
- Last days of empire / John Darwin.