Eclipse of Empire
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- Author: D. A. Low, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: July 1993
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- isbn: 9780521457545
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Eclipse of Empire brings together the work of one of the foremost historians of the recent colonial experience to provide comprehensive outline accounts of the end of the British Empire in India and in Africa, and to assess the many sociopolitical ramifications of this process. No other study has approached the whole twentieth century decolonization process so comprehensively.
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
Reviews & endorsements
"Eclipse of Empire is a real historical tour de force. Comprehensive, informed, well-balanced and erudite, it will herald the take-off point for future analyses of the transformations brought about by the formal end-of-European-empire in Asia and Africa." International Journal of African Historical Studies
See more reviews"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
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- Date Published: July 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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