[PDF] East Of Suez And The Commonwealth Europe Rhodesia Commonwealth eBook

Author : William Roger Louis
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 16,7 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780112905837

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The main purpose of the British Documents on the End of Empire Project (BDEEP) is to publish documents from British official archives on the ending of colonial rule and the context in which this took place. This publication is the second of three volumes which relate to the years 1964 to 1971, during which period ten territories became independent and all but one (Aden) became new members of the Commonwealth. Issues considered include: Britain's second application to join the EEC; colonial issues at the UN; planning and assessment of priorities for British interests after the withdrawl from Suez; major Whitehall administrative changes and the Overseas Service during 1966 to 1968; an assessment of the value of the Commonwealth to Britain; and developments relating to Rhodesia.

Author : William Roger Louis
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 20,41 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780112905820

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The main purpose of the British Documents on the End of Empire Project (BDEEP) is to publish documents from British official archives on the ending of colonial rule and the context in which this took place. This publication is the first of three volumes which examine the years 1964 to 1971, during which period ten territories became independent and all but one (Aden) became new members of the Commonwealth. Issues considered include: the symbolic significance of the recall of British troops from East of Suez, and the circumstances of Britain's withdrawl from Aden; a reappraisal of British interests in South-East Asia in the context of Singapore's secession from Malaysia; the ending of confrontation with Indonesia; British views on the Vietnam conflict; the end of Britain's treaties of protection in the Persian Gulf and the creation of the UAE.

Author : Stationery Office, The
Publisher :
Page : 1807 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 2004
Category :
ISBN : 9780112905851

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Set of 3 volumes also available separately: Part 1 East of Suez (ISBN 011290582X); Part 2 Europe, Rhodesia, Commonwealth (ISBN 0112905838); Part 3 Dependent territories, Africa, economics, race (ISBN 0112908546). No public library discount on this item

Author : W. Fain
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,98 MB
Release : 2008-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0230613365

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This book critically examines the origins of American diplomacy in the greater Persian Gulf region, arguing that it was the inability of the United States to contend effectively with the disintegration of British imperial authority in the Gulf that eventually led it to assume its current role in the region.

Author : Martin Kitchen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 39,68 MB
Release : 1996-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1349248304

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From its modest to its recent disappearance, the British Empire was an extraordinary and paradoxical entity. North America, Africa, South and Southeast Asia and Australasia and innumerable small islands and territories have been fundamentally shaped - economically, socially and politically - by a nation whose imperial drive came from a bewildering mixture of rapacity and moral zeal, of high-mindedness and viciousness, of strategic cunning and feckless neglect. Martin Kitchen has written a fascinating, crisp, informative account of the rise and fall of the British Empire, concentrating on the 19th and 20th centuries but giving the background of the 'First British Empire', which was lost with the creating of the United States of America. His book is of particular value in relating the importance of the Empire to Britain's success as the only genuinely world power in the Victorian era and to Britain's ability to win the two great wars of the 20th century.

Author : Elizabeth Buettner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 41,98 MB
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 131659470X

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Europe after Empire is a pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present. Elizabeth Buettner charts the long-term development of post-war decolonization processes as well as the histories of inward and return migration from former empires which followed. She shows that not only were former colonies remade as a result of the path to decolonization: so too was Western Europe, with imperial traces scattered throughout popular and elite cultures, consumer goods, religious life, political formations, and ideological terrains. People were also inwardly mobile, including not simply Europeans returning 'home' but Asians, Africans, West Indians, and others who made their way to Europe to forge new lives. The result is a Europe fundamentally transformed by multicultural diversity and cultural hybridity and by the destabilization of assumptions about race, culture, and the meanings of place, and where imperial legacies and memories live on.

Author : John Donald Bruce Miller
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 27,48 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN :

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In the present proliferation of blocs, alliances and pacts, the Commonwealth remains unique. Britainâe(tm)s old Colonial Empire has grown into a free, loose grouping of equal sovereign states, each respecting to the full of the othersâe(tm) independence. J. D. B. Miller examines the political structure of the Commonwealth and the international status of its members, and forecasts the circumstances in which it can me expected to endure. He contends that the commonwealth is âeoea concert of convenienceâe to which each member belongs for reasons of interest rather than of sentiment. The countries of the Commonwealth find profit in the means of consultation and economic cooperation which it offers, and in the political field confine their discussions to the larger issues on which there is a measure of common interest. The Commonwealth in the World is one of the few works which deals conveniently with these matters in a single volume. As an Australian, Miller views his subject with the necessary detachment; and his writing is as spirited as his judgments are sound.