The British Empire in the 1950s : retreat or revival? /

The British Empire in the 1950s : retreat or revival? /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Wiles Colloquium
Other Authors: Lynn, Martin, 1951-
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Subjects:
Imperialism > Government policy > Great Britain > History > 20th century > Congresses.
Decolonization > Great Britain > Colonies > History > 20th century > Congresses.
Great Britain > Colonies > History > 20th century > Congresses.
Table of Contents:
  • Was there a fourth British Empire? / John Darwin
  • Keeping change within bounds : a Whitehall reassessment / S.R. Ashton
  • 'Government by blackmail' : the origins of the Central African Federation reconsidered / Philip Murphy
  • African prospects : mining the empire from Britain in the 1950s / Sarah Stockwell
  • Decolonisation in the 1950s : the version according to British business / Nicholas J. White
  • Things fall apart : the erosion of local government, local justice and civil rights in Ghana, 1955-60 / Richard Rathbone
  • 'We cannot let the North down' : British policy and Nigeria in the 1950s / Martin Lynn
  • Anglo-American revival and empire during the Macmillan years, 1957-63 / Nigel J. Ashton
  • Public enemy number one : the British Empire in the dock at the United Nations, 1957-1971 / Wm. Roger Louis
  • When (if ever) did Empire end? : 'internal decolonisation' in British culture since the 1950s / Stephen Howe.