Eclipse of Empire

D. A. Low (Author)

9780521457545, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 30 July 1993

392 pages, 3 maps
22.7 x 15 x 2.3 cm, 0.499 kg

'He … displays … astute analysis and the mastery of a wide range of sources.' Ian Talbot, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

The middle decades of the twentieth century witnessed the great dramas of the ending of Western imperial rule in Africa and Asia. A series of nationalist onslaughts was launched against the British Empire and these greatly reshaped the modern world. Professor Anthony Low has studied the end of the British Empire and its aftermath for many years. This volume brings together for the first time many of his major essays on the subject.

1. The contraction of England: an inaugural lecture 1984
2. The twentieth century revolution in Monson Asia
3. India and Britain: the climactic years 1917–1947
4. The forgotten Bania: merchant communities and the Indian National Congress
5. Counterpart experiences: India/Indonesia 1920s–1950s
6. Emergencies and elections in India
7. East Africa: towards the new order 1945–1963 with John Lonsdale
8. Africa Year 1960
9. The end of the British Empire in Africa
10. History and independent Africa's political trauma
11. Political superstructures in post-colonial states (i) A register of constructs
(ii) A dislocated polity: Uganda 1960–86
12. Little Britain and large Commonwealth (i) The post-imperial Commonwealth
(ii) Commonwealth studies and Commonwealth countries
13. Australia in the eastern hemisphere.

Subject Areas: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], General & world history [HBG]