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This interesting book raises good questions for further research and is essential reading for those interested in 20th-century British history as well as imperial history. --Choice<br> .,. [An] elegant new study... The book is written and argued with much assurance and acuity...Howe has provided a valuable and rigorous study... --Albion<br>

`stimulating book ... his account provides an important - and largely negative - piece in the jigsaw' The Guardian 'well researched, wide ranging study ... This is an excellent book of record.' Guy Arnold, West Africa, February 1994 `invaluable detail on and critical analysis of the left both inside and outside Parliament...makes an important contribution to the debate on the respective importance of the various contributors to decolonisation...an interesting contribution to a major and on-going debate.` The Times Higher Education Supplement 'thorough monograph ... The main strength, and value, of the book lies in its solid scholarship, and it will serve as a prime source of information for any students contemplating future research on this subject.' Tom Buchanan, Kellogg College, Oxford, Labour History Review 'welcome study ... he provides us with an important book that recovers a vital but neglected dimension of the history of the British Left ... this is an Oxford Historical Monograph ... a most valuable book that deserves to be widely read and followed up by other radical scholars' John Newsinger, Bath College of High Education, Race & Class This will stand as a definitive study of the colonial debate among Left pressure groups. `In the book as a whole narrative predominates over the analysis; but it is a narrative which combines an expansive and hitherto unintegrated secondary literature with significant new information and ideas on neglected aspects of the subject. This is an unusual book. Howe provides a salutary reminder of both the errors and the constructive idealism of British radicals.' Parliamentary History `Dr Howe is...primarily concerned to tell us what these activists thought and said about their issues, and what they tried to do to gain public support. He does this very well, with impressive documentation.' The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History `his extremely wide-ranging researches have been conducted with true scholarly detachment...valuable contribution. In studying anti-colonialism, attachments are still liable to be strong, for Dr Howe's generation no less for mine. His work shows that, given disciplined scholarship, they do not exclude the opposite quality of detachment, nor require the deadly virtue of indifference.' African Affairs `based on extensive research in a wide range of sources.' Journal of Asian Studies `wide-ranging study of anti-colonialism in British politics' Gillian Peele, History Today `Howe has skilfully side-stepped the dangers of tedium, and shows a wry awareness of the occasional elements of farce amidst the seriously righteous passion ... The most striking feature of Stephen Howe's analysis ... is the evident and persistent poverty of reflection by his chosen anticolonialist actors on the economics of empire ... Stephen Howe has provided a valuable study of the anticolonialist left.' History Workshop Journal `Anticolonialism and anti-imperialism in general seem to be neglected themes in British history. Scholarly work on Britain's anticolonial traditions is therefore always to be welcomed, especially when it is as well researched as Stephen Howe's survey of the subject. Anticolonialism in British Politics will no doubt become a standard work on the subject ... the book's extended coverage has a great deal to recommend it and there is much that points the way forward for future research.' Hakim Adi, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Socialist History 9

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