Decolonization And Its Impact: Comparative Approach to the End of Colonial Empire: A Comparitive Approach to the End of the Colonial Empires - Brossura

Shipway, Martin

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ISBN 10: 0631199683 ISBN 13: 9780631199687

Casa editrice: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007

Riassunto

Decolonization and its Impact is a ground-breaking comparative study of decolonization from before the Second World War to the early 1960s.

• Compares key cases across the European colonial empires
• Focuses on the process and impact of decolonization at the level of the 'late colonial state' and of colonial societies
• Presents an original model of decolonization that seeks to reconcile imperial and nationalist perspectives
• Engages with important theoretical approaches
• Makes extensive reference to recent literature on the subject

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Recensione:

"A master of concision, Shipway presents a complex story with clarity and verve. Wearing his scholarly erudition lightly, he combines up–to–date historiography with engaging case studies and lucid prose."
Jane Samson, University of Alberta

L'autore:

Martin Shipway is Lecturer in French Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of The Road to War: France and Vietnam, 1944-1947 (1996) and has written journal articles and book chapters on French colonial policy making and decolonization in Indochina, sub-Saharan Africa, Algeria and Madagascar, as well as on colonial discourse, psychology and photography, and on post-colonial memory.

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• Editore: Wiley-Blackwell
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0631199683
• ISBN 13: 9780631199687
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 290