Eclipse of Empire
- Author: D. A. Low, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: November 1993
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521457545
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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.
Read more- Important collection of essays on the end of the British Empire, out now in paperback
- This book has an unusually wide range of reference and Professor Low is well known in many centres of the Commonwealth
- No other study has approached the whole twentieth-century decolonisation process in so comprehensive a way
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'These essays reflect the interplay of autobiography and academic scholarship. Future authors … will have to wrestle with the definitions of causes, categories, chronologies and consequences distilled in Anthony Low's pages.' Andrew Porter, The Times Literary Supplement
See more reviews'His extensive scholarly experience of East Africa … and of India, has conferred upon Low a rich understanding of national, sub-national and local politics in these regions. To his grassroot view of events and processes he adds a commanding metropolitan perception.' Ravinder Kumar, The Book Review (India)
'He … displays … astute analysis and the mastery of a wide range of sources.' Ian Talbot, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
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- Date Published: November 1993
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521457545
- length: 392 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 150 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.499kg
- contains: 3 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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