Britain and Commonwealth Africa
Author: Yusuf Bangura
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780719008542
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The Rise, Decline and Future of the British Commonwealth
Author: K. Srinivasan
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005-11-07
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 0230248438
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by a senior Indian diplomat who has until recently also served as Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General, this book provides a unique and far-reaching exploration of the British Commonwealth, and its impact since the second World War on the process of Britain adjusting to a world without Empire. Whither the Commonwealth now? What is its record of achievement; what are the benefits of membership to countries in terms of collective political influence, trade, investment, aid, travel and education? Can any practical good be envisaged for this nearly moribund post-colonial organization? Britain, which brought the association into being and is central to it, would have to play a key part in determining its future. But in coming to such decisions, the British Government faces great problems of perception, both from the Monarchy and the British public.
Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa
Author: Andrew W.M. Smith
Publisher: UCL Press
Published: 2017-03-01
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1911307746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of ‘late colonial shift’ after 1945. Rather than view decolonization as an inevitable process, the contributors together explore the crucial historical moments in which change was negotiated, compromises were made, and debates were staged. Three core themes guide the analysis: development, contingency and entanglement. The chapters consider the ways in which decolonization was governed and moderated by concerns about development and profit. A complementary focus on contingency allows deeper consideration of how colonial powers planned for ‘colonial futures’, and how divergent voices greeted the end of empire. Thinking about entanglements likewise stresses both the connections that existed between the British and French empires in Africa, and those that endured beyond the formal transfer of power.
The British Empire and Commonwealth
Author: Martin Kitchen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1996-08-14
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1349248304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom its modest to its recent disappearance, the British Empire was an extraordinary and paradoxical entity. North America, Africa, South and Southeast Asia and Australasia and innumerable small islands and territories have been fundamentally shaped - economically, socially and politically - by a nation whose imperial drive came from a bewildering mixture of rapacity and moral zeal, of high-mindedness and viciousness, of strategic cunning and feckless neglect. Martin Kitchen has written a fascinating, crisp, informative account of the rise and fall of the British Empire, concentrating on the 19th and 20th centuries but giving the background of the 'First British Empire', which was lost with the creating of the United States of America. His book is of particular value in relating the importance of the Empire to Britain's success as the only genuinely world power in the Victorian era and to Britain's ability to win the two great wars of the 20th century.
The British Press, Public Opinion and the End of Empire in Africa
Author: Rosalind Coffey
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-01-30
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 3030894568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides fresh insights into how the British press affected both British perceptions of decolonisation in Africa and British policy towards it during the ‘wind of change’ period. It also reveals, for the first time, the extent to which British newspaper coverage was of relevance to African and white settler readerships. British newspapers informed the political strategies and civic cultures of African activists, nationalists, liberal whites in Africa, the staunchest of white settler communities, and the first governments of independent African states and their opponents. The British press, British public opinion and British journalists became etched into the lived experiences of the end of empire affecting Anglo-African and Anglo-settler relations to this day. Arguing that the press cast a transnational web of influence over the decolonisation process in Africa, the author explores the relationships between the British, African and settler public and political spheres, and highlights the mediating power of the British press during the late 1950s. The book draws from a range of British newspapers, official government documents, newspaper archives, interviews, memoirs, autobiographies and articles printed in African and white settler papers. It will be of interest to historians of decolonisation, Africa, the media and the British Empire.
Nigeria and World War II
Author: Chima J. Korieh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-26
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1108425801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sophisticated history of colonial interactions in Nigeria during World War II drawing on hitherto unexplored archival resources.
The Commonwealth Experience
Author: Nicholas Mansergh
Publisher:
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 564
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Author: William Keith Hancock
Publisher:
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 0
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Author: Ali AlʾAmin Mazrui
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudy of the political role of UK in African accession to independence - covers political problems, cultural changes, etc. References.
Fighting for Britain
Author: David Killingray
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1847010156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaigns in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, Italy and Burma - the largest single movement of African men overseas since the slave trade. This account, based mainly on oral evidence and soldiers' letters, tells the story of the African experience of the war. It is a 'history from below' that describes how men were recruited for a war about which most knew very little. Army life exposed them to a range of new and startling experiences: new foods and forms of discipline, uniforms, machines and rifles, notions of industrial time, travel overseas, new languages and cultures, numeracy and literacy. What impact did service in the army have on African men and their families? What new skills did soldiers acquire and to what purposes were they put on their return? What was the social impact of overseas travel, and how did the broad umbrella of army welfare services change soldiers' expectations of civilian life? And what role if any did ex-servicemen play in post-war nationalist politics? In this book African soldiers describe in their own words what it was like to undergo army training, to travel on a vast ocean, to experience battle, and their hopes and disappointments on demobilisation. DAVID KILLINGRAY is Professor Emeritus of History, Goldsmiths, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.
