The Break-Up of Greater Britain

Stuart Ward (Curatore)

Christian Pedersen (Curatore)

Manchester University Press, 2023

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. -- .

• Curatore: Stuart Ward, Christian Pedersen
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Collana: Studies in Imperialism
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 336 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 467 gr.
• EAN: 9781526174468

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