Commonwealth History in the Twenty-First Century
Editors: Dubow, Saul, Drayton, Richard (Eds.)
Free Preview- Explores the enduring historical ties of the Commonwealth as an institution
- Brings together leading scholars in imperial, post-colonial and commonwealth history to reflect on the Commonwealth’s significance
- Examines the Commonwealth’s ongoing influence on law, constitutionalism and federation, as well as its importance in particular countries and regions
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- About this book
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This edited collection draws together new historical writing on the Commonwealth. It features the work of younger scholars, as well as established academics, and highlights themes such as law and sovereignty, republicanism and the monarchy, French engagement with the Commonwealth, the anti-apartheid struggle, race and immigration, memory and commemoration, and banking. The volume focusses less on the Commonwealth as an institution than on the relevance and meaning of the Commonwealth to its member countries and peoples. By adopting oblique, de-centred, approaches to Commonwealth history, unusual or overlooked connections are brought to the fore while old problems are looked at from fresh vantage points – be this turning points like the relationship between ‘old’ and `new’ Commonwealth members from 1949, or the distinctive roles of major figures like Jawaharlal Nehru or Jan Smuts. The volume thereby aims to refresh interest in Commonwealth history as a field of comparative international history.
- About the authors
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Saul Dubow is Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge, UK, and an expert on South Africa.
Richard Drayton is Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London, UK, with a special interest in the Caribbean.
Both teach and write about global and imperial history.
- Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Introduction: The Commonwealth in the Twenty-First Century
Pages 1-19
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The League of Nations and the ‘Third British Empire’, 1919–1940
Pages 21-39
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Commonwealth History from Below? Caribbean National, Federal and Pan-African Renegotiations of the Empire Project, c. 1880–1950
Pages 41-60
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Commonwealth Constitution-Maker: The Life of Yash Ghai
Pages 61-80
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‘The Unbridgeable Gulf’: Responsible Self-Government and Aboriginal Title in Southern Rhodesia and the Commonwealth
Pages 81-99
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Commonwealth History in the Twenty-First Century
- Editors
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- Saul Dubow
- Richard Drayton
- Series Title
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-41788-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-41788-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-41787-1
- Series ISSN
- 2635-1633
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 345
- Topics