Overview
- This book considers the decolonisation of the British Empire from both historical and political perspectives
Uses much original documentation to support its theories
Places British decolonisation within a wider international context
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book combines an analysis of the ideas and policies that governed the British experience of decolonization. It shows how the British, perhaps more correctly the English, political tradition, with its emphasis on experience over abstract theory, was integral to the way in which the empire was regarded as being transformed rather than lost. This was a significant aspect of the relatively painless British loss of empire. It places the process of decolonization in its wider context, tracing the twentieth-century domestic and international conditions that hastened decolonization, and, through a close analysis of not only the policy choices but also the language of British imperialism, it throws new light on the British way of managing both the expansion and contraction of empire.
About the author
D. GEORGE BOYCE is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Wales, Swansea.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Decolonisation and the British Empire, 1775–1997
Authors: D. George Boyce
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27755-1
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: D. George Boyce 1999
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-62103-5Due: 20 September 1999
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 317
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Imperialism and Colonialism