37. Apologies, restitutions, and compensation: making reparations for colonialism / Robert Aldrich. 2. 1918 and the End of Europe's Land Empires / Robert Gerwarth -- 3. An Empire Unredeemed: Tracing the Ottoman State's Path towards Collapse / Ryan Gingeras -- Part I. National perspectives. 4. Britain and decolonization in an era of global change / Sarah Elizabeth Stockwell -- 5. France: the longue duree of French decolonization / Emmanuelle Saada -- 6. The first postcolonial national in Europe? the end of the German empire / Andreas Eckert -- 7. Exceptional Italy? the many ends of the Italian colonial empire / Nicola Labanca -- 8. Apres nous, le deluge: Belgium, decolonization , and the Congo / Matthew G. Stanard -- 9. Portugal: decolonization without agency / Norrie MacQueen -- 10. The collapse of the Romanov empire / Alexey Miller -- 11. Empire by imitation? US economic imperialism within a British world system / Marc-William Palen -- 12. Rethinking empire: lessons from imperial and post-imperial Japan / Louise Young -- 13. The eclipse of empire in China: from the Manchus to Mao / Tehyun Ma -- Part II. Regional perspectives. 14. Decolonization in South Asia: the long view / Joya Chatterji -- 15. Global wars and decolonization in East and South-East Asia (1937-1954) / Christopher Goscha -- 16. The end of empire in the Maghreb: the common heritage and distinct destinies of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia / Sylvie Thenault -- 17. Decolonization in tropical Africa / Frederick Cooper -- 18. The Caribbean in an international and regional context: revolution, neo-colonialism, and diaspora / Spencer Mawby -- 19. Eastern Europe in the global history of decolonization / James Mark and Quinn Slobodian -- 20. Decolonization and the arid world / Robert S. G. Fletcher -- 21. The open ends of the Dutch empire and the Indonesian past: sites, scholarly networks, and moral geographies of Greater India across decolonization / Marieke Bloembergen -- Part III. Thematic perspectives. 22. Self-determination and decolonization / Brad Simpson -- 23. Anti-colonialism: origins, practices, and historical legacies / Christopher J. Lee -- 24. Unravelling the relationships between humanitarianism, human rights, and decolonization: time for a radical rethink? / Andrew S. Thompson -- 25. Decolonization and the Cold War / Piero Gleijeses -- 26. Violence, insurgency, and the end of empires / Martin Thomas -- 27. Nationalism, development, and welfare colonialism: gender and the dynamics of decolonization / Barbara Bush -- 28. Repressive developmentalism: idioms, repertoires, and trajectories in late colonialism / Miguel Bandeira Jeronimo -- 29. Islamic revolutionaries and the end of empire / David Motadel -- 30. Refugees and the end of empire / Panikos Panayi -- Part IV. Legacies and memories. 31. Postcolonial migrations to Europe / Elizabeth Buettner -- 32. Beyond dependency: north-south relationships in the age of development / Joseph Morgan Hodge -- 33. Imperial business interests, decolonization, and post-colonial diversification / Nicholas J. White -- 34. Film and the end of empire: deconstructing and reconstructing colonial pasts and their legacy in world cinemas / Paul Cooke -- 35. Remnants of empire / Michael J. Parsons -- 36. Literature and decolonization / Charles Forsdick -- 37. Apologies, restitutions, and compensation: making reparations for colonialism / Robert Aldrich.
Summary:
The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire offers the most comprehensive treatment of the causes, course, and consequences of the ends of empire in the twentieth century. The volume's contributors convey the global reach of decolonization, with chapters analysing the empires of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, China and Japan. The Handbook combines broad, regional treatments of decolonization with chapter contributions constructed around particular themes or social issues. It considers how the history of decolonization is being rethought as a result of the rise of the 'new' imperial history, and its emphasis on race, gender, and culture, as well as the more recent growth of interest in histories of globalization, transnational history, and histories of migration and diaspora, humanitarianism and development,0and human rights. The Handbook, in other words, seeks to identify the processes and commonalities of experience that make decolonization a unique historical phenomenon with a lasting resonance. In light of decades of historical and social scientific scholarship on modernization, dependency, neo-colonialism, 'failed state' architectures and post-colonial conflict, the obvious question that begs itself is 'when did empires actually end?' In seeking to unravel this most basic dilemma the Handbook explores the relationship between the study of decolonization and the study of globalization. It connects histories of the late-colonial and post-colonial worlds, and considers the legacies of empire in European and formerly colonised societies.
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