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Author:

Brendon, Piers.

Title:

The decline and fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 / Piers Brendon.

Edition:

1st American ed.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xxii, 786 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., col. maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Great Britain--History.--History.
Commonwealth countries--History.
Commonwealth (Organization)--History.
Imperialism--History.
Great Britain--Civilization.
Impérialisme--19e siècle.
Impérialisme--20e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne--Colonies--19e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne--Colonies--20e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne--Civilisation--19e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne--Civilisation--20e siècle.

Notes:

Maps on endpapers. "Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, London"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. [665]-759) and index.

Contents:

The world that turned upside down: The American Revolution and slave trade -- An English barrack in the Oriental seas: Britannia's Indian Empire -- Exempt from the disaster of caste: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand -- To stop is dangerous, to recede, ruin: The Far East and Afghanistan -- Sacred wrath: Irish famine and Indian mutiny -- Spread the peaceful gospel - with the Maxim gun: Towards conquest in Africa -- A magnificent empire under the British flag: Cape to Cairo -- Barbarian thundering at the frontiers: The Boer War and the Indian Raj -- The empire, right or wrong: Flanders, Iraq, Gallipoli, and Vimy Ridge -- Aflame with the hope of liberation: Ireland and the Middle East -- Englishmen like posing as gods: West and East -- White mates black in a very few moves: Kenya and the Sudan -- Spinning the destiny of India: The route to independence -- That is the end of the British Empire: Singapore and Burma -- The aim of labour is to save the empire: Ceylon and Malaya -- A golden bowl full of scorpions: The Holy Land -- The destruction of national will: Suez invasion and Aden evacuation -- Renascent Africa: The Gold Coast of Africa and Nigeria -- Uhuru - freedom: Kenya and the Mau Mau -- Kith and kin: Rhodesia and the Central African Federation -- Rocks and islands: The West Indies and Cyprus -- All our pomp of yesterday: The Falklands and Hong Kong.

ISBN:

0307268292
9780307268297

OCLC:

(OCoLC)215177421

LCCN:

2008014192

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