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This is the first major attempt to view the break-up of Britain as a global phenomenon, incorporating peoples and cultures of all races and creeds that became embroiled in the liquidation of the British Empire in the decades after the Second World War. A team of leading historians are assembled here to view a familiar problem through an unfamiliar lens, ranging from India, to China, Southern Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the Falklands, Gibraltar and the United Kingdom itself. At a time when trace-elements of Greater Britain have resurfaced in British politics, animating the febrile polemics of Brexit, these essays offer a sober historical perspective. More than perhaps at any other time since the empire's precipitate demise, it is imperative to gain a fresh purchase on the global challenges to British identities in the twentieth century.

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9781526174468

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‘The break-up of Greater Britain draws together a wide range of contributions from some of the leading scholars of empire and Britishness.’ Simon Potter, Journal of Contemporary History -- .

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Christian D. Pedersen is Associate Professor in British Imperial History at the University of Southern Denmark Stuart Ward is Professor at the Saxo Institute for History, Archaeology, Ethnology and Classics at Copenhagen University

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