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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.>
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Introduction: Experience and Empire
The Expansion of England
North America, 1775-1850: Lessons from History?
Rationalism and Empire, 1850-1914
Pillars of Empire: Ireland and India
The Context of Empire, 1939-1957
The Concept of Empire from Attlee to Churchill, 1945-1955
Pillars of Empire: The Middle East
The Concept of Empire from Eden to Macmillan, 1956-1963
Pillars of Empire: Africa
Empire, Race and Citizenship
The Contraction of England
Conclusion: Experience and Decolonization
Index.
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George Boyce
