Sarah Stockwell (King's College London)

The British End of the British Empire

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How did decolonization impact on Britain? And how did Britain manage its transition from colonial power to postcolonial nation? These questions are explored in an account of the ways in which domestic institutions reconfigured their activities for a postcolonial world, and continued to assert influence after the end of empire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9781107070318
• ISBN-10: 1107070317
• Artikelnr.: 51156253

Autorenporträt

Sarah Stockwell is professor of imperial and Commonwealth history at King's College London, and a leading historian of British decolonization. Her publications include The Business of Decolonization: British Business Strategies in the Gold Coast (2000) and, as editor, The British Empire: Themes and Perspectives (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The imperial roles of British institutions; 2. Technical assistance and
state building at the end of empire; 3. Teaching what 'the natives need to
know': the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and training for overseas
public administration; 4. 'Education and propaganda': the Bank of England
and the development of central banking in African states at the end of
empire; 5. Making Money: the Royal Mint and British decolonization; 6.
'Losing an empire and winning friends': Sandhurst and British
decolonization.