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Author:   Berny Sèbe ,  Matthew G. Stanard
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367139605

ISBN 10:   036713960
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   16 April 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction: Making Sense of the End of Empire: Fluxes and Flows in Decolonising Europe? PART I Meaning: Making Sense of Decolonisation 1. Magna Carta and the End of Empire 2. The End of Empire and the Four Nations 3. Reverberations of Decolonisation: British Approaches to Governance in Post-colonial Africa and the Rise of the ‘Strong Men’ PART II Media: Words and Images of the End of Empire 4. The Semantics of Decolonisation: The Public Debate on the New Guinea Question in the Netherlands, 1950-62 5. Decolonisation and the Press: A Path to Pluralism in Franco’s Spain, ca. 1950-75 PART III Memory: Recalling Empire in Post-imperial Worlds 6. Afterlives of Colonialism in the Everyday: Street Names and the (Un)Making of Imperial Debris 7. Passing the Point of No Return: Italy’s Regretted End of Empire and the Mogadishu Massacre of 1948 8. Oases of Imperial Nostalgia: British and French Desert Memories after Empire 9. Questioning Portugal’s Social Cohesion, and Preparing Post-imperial Memory: Returned Settlers (retornados) and Portuguese Society, 1975-80 PART IV Material Culture: Tactile Rémanences 10. Ephemera and the Dynamics of Colonial Memory 11. Domestic Museums of Decolonisation? Objects, Colonial Officials, and the Afterlives of Empire in Britain 12. Decongolizing Europe? African Art and Post-Colony Belgium PART V Momentum: Decolonisation and its Aftermath Afterword: Diverging Experiences of Decolonisation

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Berny Sèbe is Senior Lecturer in Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK Matthew G. Stanard is Professor of History at Berry College, USA

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