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The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire offers the most comprehensive treatment of the causes, course, and consequences of the collapse of empires in the twentieth century. The volume's contributors convey the global reach of decolonization, analysing the ways in which European, Asian, and African empires disintegrated over the past century.
List of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Rethinking decolonization: A New Research Agenda for the 21st Century
- 1918 and the End of Europe's Land Empires
- An Empire Unredeemed: Tracing the Ottoman State's Path towards Collapse
- Part I: National Perspectives
- 1: Sarah E. Stockwell: Britain
- 2: Emmanuelle Saada: France: the longue dur^andeacute^e of French Decolonization
- 3: Andreas Eckert: Germany
- 4: Nicola Labanca: Exceptional Italy? The Many Ends of the Italian Colonial Empire
- 5: Matthew G. Stanard: Apr^andegrave^s nous, le d^andeacute^luge: Belgium, Decolonization, and the Congo
- 6: Norrie MacQueen: Portugal
- 7: Alexey Miller: The Collapse of the Romanov Empire
- 8: Marc-William Palen: Empire by Imitation? US Economic Imperialism within a British World System
- 9: Louise Conrad Young: Rethinking Empire: Lessons from Imperial and Post Imperial Japan
- 10: Tehyun Ma: China
- Part II: Regional Perspectives
- 11: Joya Chatterji: Decolonization in South Asia: The Long View
- 12: Christopher Goscha: Global Wars and Decolonization in East and South East Asia, 1927-1954
- 13: Sylvie Th^andeacute^nault: The End of Empire in the Maghreb: The Common Heritage and Distinct Destinies of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia
- 14: Frederick Cooper: Decolonization in Tropical Africa
- 15: Spencer Mawby: The Caribbean
- 16: James Mark and Quinn Slobodian: Eastern Europe
- 17: Robert S. G. Fletcher: Decolonization and the Arid World
- 18: Marieke Bloembergen: The Open Ends of the Dutch Empire and the Indonesian Past: Sites, Scholarly Networks, and Moral Geographies of Greater India across Decolonization
- Part III: Thematic Perspectives
- 19: Brad Simpson: Self-determination and Decolonization
- 20: Christopher J. Lee: Anti-colonialism
- 21: Andrew Thompson: Unravelling the Relationships between Humanitarianism, Human Rights, and Decolonization: Time for a Radical Rethink?
- 22: Piero Gleijeses: Decolonization and Cold War
- 23: Martin Thomas: Violence, Insurgency, and Ends of Empire
- 24: Barbara Bush: Nationalism, Development, and Welfare Colonialism: Gender and the Dynamics of Decolonization
- 25: Miguel Bandeira Jer^andoacute^nimo: Repressive Developmentalism: Idioms, Repertoires, and Trajectories in Late Colonialism
- 26: David Motadel: Islamic Revolutionaries and the End of Empire
- 27: Panikos Panayi: Refugees and the End of Empire
- Part IV: Legacies and Memories
- 28: Elizabeth Buettner: Postcolonial Migrations to Europe
- 29: Joseph Morgan Hodge: Beyond Dependency: North-South Relationships in the Age of Development
- 30: Nicholas J. White: Imperial Business Interests, Decolonization and Post- Colonial Diversification
- 31: Paul Cooke: Film and the End of Empire: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Colonial Pasts and their Legacy in World Cinemas
- 32: Michael J. Parsons: Remnants of Empire
- 33: Charles Forsdick: Literature and Decolonization
- 34: Robert Aldrich: Apologies, Restitutions and Compensation: Making Reparations for Colonialism
About the author
Martin Thomas is Professor of Imperial History and Director of the Centre for Histories of Violence and Conflict at the University of Exeter. A specialist in the politics of contested decolonization, his most recent publications are Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918-1940 (2012), Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire (2014), and, with co-author Richard Toye, Arguing about Empire: Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France (2017). He is an Independent Social Research Foundation Fellow and coordinator of a Leverhulme Trust research network, Understanding Insurgencies: Resonances from the Colonial Past.
Andrew Thompson's previous publications include The Empire Strikes Back? The Impact of Imperialism on Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century (2005), Empire and Globalisation. Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c.1850-1914 (2010), and an edited collection, Britain's Experience of Empire in the Twentieth Century (2011). He is currently Professor of Global and Imperial History at the University of Oxford and Co-Director of the Oxford Centre for Global History. He is a Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College. He serves on the editorial boards of South African Historical Journal and Twentieth Century British History.
Summary
The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire offers the most comprehensive treatment of the causes, course, and consequences of the collapse of empires in the twentieth century. The volume's contributors convey the global reach of decolonization, analysing the ways in which European, Asian, and African empires disintegrated over the past century.
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The range of topics covered is impressive and reflects the directions being followed in the existing scholarship. It is particularly good to see that the current lively fields of humanitarianism, development history, colonial violence, and the intersections between Cold War politics and decolonization are well represented. The material on refugees and migration speaks to contemporary political concerns persuasively and deftly
