Dane Kennedy (Dr. Professor of History and D International Affairs

Decolonization: A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

This succinct and insightful account of decolonization analyses the tumultuous events that caused the shift from a world of colonial empires to a world of nation-states in the years after World War II.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: OUP USA / Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 174mm x 111mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 109g
• ISBN-13: 9780199340491
• ISBN-10: 0199340498
• Artikelnr.: 44345749

Autorenporträt

Dane Kennedy is the Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University and the Director of the National History Center. He is the author of five previous books on aspects of British imperial history as well as editor or co-editor of several others. He is a founding member of the International Decolonization Seminar faculty, which ran from 2006 to 2015.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Waves of Decolonization
2 Global War's Colonial Consequences
3 The Deluge
4 The Problem of the Nation-State
5 Imperial Continuities and the Politics of Amnesia
References
Further Reading
Index