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.

Other author Bandeira Jerónimo, Miguel, 1973-
Other author Pinto, António Costa.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Descriptionxii, 288 pages ; 23 cm.
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SeriesCambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
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LCCN 2015001715
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