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Author:   Stuart Ward ,  Stuart Ward ,  Andrew Thompson ,  John MacKenzie
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.364kg
ISBN:  

9780719060489

ISBN 10:   0719060486
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   13 December 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements General editor's introduction Introduction 1. The persistence of empire in metropolitan culture - John M. Mackenzie 2. Empire loyalists and 'Commonwealth men': The round table and the end of empire - Alex May 3. Coronation Everest: empire and commonwealth in the 'second Elizabethan age' - Peter H. Hansen 4. Look back at empire: British theatre and imperial decline - Dan Rebellato 5. 'No nation could be broker': The satire boom and the demise of Britain's world role - Stuart Ward 6. The imperial game in crisis: English cricket and decolonisation - Mike Cronin and Richard Holt 7. Imperial heroes for a post-imperial age: Films and the end of empire - Jeffrey Richards 8. Imperial legacies, new frontiers: Children's popular literature and the demise of empire - Cathryn Castle 9. Wandering in the wake of empire: British travel and tourism in the post-imperial world - Hsu-Ming Teo 10. Communities of Britishness: Migration in the last gasp of empire - Kathleen Paul 11. South Asians in post-imperial Britain: Decolonisation and the imperial legacy - Shompa Lahiri 12. India, Inc.?: Nostalgia, memory and the empire of things - Antoinette Burton Notes on contributors -- .

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'This is a fine collection, which patiently unthreads one of the most persistent orthodoxies of British historiography - the belief that decolonisation was a process which happened only overseas. ' --Bill Schwarz, Goldsmiths' College, University of London

"'This is a fine collection, which patiently unthreads one of the most persistent orthodoxies of British historiography - the belief that decolonisation was a process which happened only ""overseas.""' --Bill Schwarz, Goldsmiths' College, University of London"

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Stuart Ward is Lecturer in History at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London. He also holds a lectureship at the University of Southern Denmark -- .

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