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Fight or Flight
Brit Fran Roads Empire C
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Sprache: Englisch

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The story of the dramatic collapse of the British and French colonial empires in the aftermath of the Second World War - now told for the first time as part of one global process
The story of the dramatic collapse of the British and French colonial empires in the aftermath of the Second World War - now told for the first time as part of one global process
Über den Autor
Martin Thomas is Professor of Imperial History in the Department of History at the University of Exeter, where he has taught since 2003. He founded the University's Centre for the Study of War, State and Society, which supports research into the impact of armed conflict on societies and communities. He is a past winner of a Philip Leverhulme prize for outstanding research and a holder of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. He has published widely on twentieth century French and imperial history, including The French Empire between the Wars: Imperialism, Politics and Society (2005), Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914 (2007, with L.J. Butler and Bob Moore), Crises of Empire: Decolonization and Europe's Imperial States, 1918-1975 (2008), and most recently Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918-1940 (2012).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • 1: Imperial Zenith? The European Empires after World War I

  • 2: Empires and the Challenge of Total War

  • 3: Brave New World? Rebuilding Empire after World War II

  • 4: Fiery Sunsets: Fighting Withdrawals in Asia, 1945-48

  • 5: Troubled Roads: War and Revolution in Southeast Asia, 1948-57

  • 6: Taking Centre Stage: Suez and Cold War Interventions in the Colonial World

  • 7: Emergency! Paths to Confrontation in Black Africa

  • 8: Keeping the Peace? 'Constructive Nationalism' below the Sahara

  • 9: A Whisper or a Scream? Ending the British Empire

  • 10: Open Wounds: Algeria's Settlers, Colonial Terror and War

  • 11: New Dawn? The Legacies of Fight or Flight

  • Notes

  • Further Reading

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780199698271
ISBN-10: 0199698279
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Thomas
Hersteller: Oxford University Press (UK)
Maße: 241 x 159 x 50 mm
Von/Mit: Thomas
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.05.2014
Gewicht: 0,96 kg
Artikel-ID: 105654868
Über den Autor
Martin Thomas is Professor of Imperial History in the Department of History at the University of Exeter, where he has taught since 2003. He founded the University's Centre for the Study of War, State and Society, which supports research into the impact of armed conflict on societies and communities. He is a past winner of a Philip Leverhulme prize for outstanding research and a holder of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. He has published widely on twentieth century French and imperial history, including The French Empire between the Wars: Imperialism, Politics and Society (2005), Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914 (2007, with L.J. Butler and Bob Moore), Crises of Empire: Decolonization and Europe's Imperial States, 1918-1975 (2008), and most recently Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918-1940 (2012).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • 1: Imperial Zenith? The European Empires after World War I

  • 2: Empires and the Challenge of Total War

  • 3: Brave New World? Rebuilding Empire after World War II

  • 4: Fiery Sunsets: Fighting Withdrawals in Asia, 1945-48

  • 5: Troubled Roads: War and Revolution in Southeast Asia, 1948-57

  • 6: Taking Centre Stage: Suez and Cold War Interventions in the Colonial World

  • 7: Emergency! Paths to Confrontation in Black Africa

  • 8: Keeping the Peace? 'Constructive Nationalism' below the Sahara

  • 9: A Whisper or a Scream? Ending the British Empire

  • 10: Open Wounds: Algeria's Settlers, Colonial Terror and War

  • 11: New Dawn? The Legacies of Fight or Flight

  • Notes

  • Further Reading

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780199698271
ISBN-10: 0199698279
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Thomas
Hersteller: Oxford University Press (UK)
Maße: 241 x 159 x 50 mm
Von/Mit: Thomas
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.05.2014
Gewicht: 0,96 kg
Artikel-ID: 105654868
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