Eclipse of Empire

"Low's achievement is to have analysed this dialectic at work in a wide variety of Asian and African settings, bringing out the generic patterns while also respecting the uniqueness of each case. His is a formidable contribution indeed." The International History Review

"On the whole Prof. D. A. Low has given us a readable and thought-provoking volume. He moves backward and forward over factual details with ease and comfort. His command over primary and secondary sources is amazing. In short he has given us a valuable collection of papers immensely useful to the students and specialists of the Empire and Commonwealth, twentieth-century political history and Asian, African and Australian studies." C. S. Krishna, The Hindu

"This is a required work for historians, political scientists, area studies specialists, and students of imperialism, and is essential reading for graduate and upper-division undergraduate students." Choice

"...a series of learned and evocative essays on the end of empire, especially in Asia and Africa....this work serves as a useful reminder that new world orders are indeed sequential." Foreign Affairs

"D. A. Low, in clear and concise terms, describes the rise of nationalist movements in British India and British Africa....gives the reader a clearer insight into the British response to the rise of nationalism in Britain's diverse empire of Asia and Africa....Low has made his enlightened views more accessible....also provides new insights into the successes and failures of the young nations that were created out of the British imperial structure." Wallace Cross, History

"Anthony Low...is perhaps the outstanding historian of British imperialism writing today...All the essays here operate at a high level of clarity, and no scholar interested in the exercise of power between peoples, in empire, in south Asia, in Africa, or in the Pacific should fail to learn from this clarity." Albion

"Low's reflections deserve a wide readership." L.E. Meyer, Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism

"This is a lucidly written book, typically D.A. Low in style, humor, and an arresting antidote to imperial nostalgia." Atieno Odhiambo, Ethno History