The Iconography of Independence (eBook, ePUB)

'Freedoms at Midnight'
Redaktion: Holland, Robert; Barringer, Terry; Williams, Susan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book offers a highly original interpretation of how the climax of transfers of power in the British Empire were lubricated by the imagery, codification and subsequent 'memory' of Independence celebrations.

This book was published as a special issue of The Round Table.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 163
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317988649
• Artikelnr.: 58397035

Autorenporträt

Robert Holland is Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Susan Williams is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Terry Barringer is the Assistant Editor of The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Preface Susan Williams, Robert Holland and Terry A. Barringer 2.
Introduction: Independence Day Ceremonials in Historical Perspective David
Cannadine 3. Independence Day and the Crown Philip Murphy 4. ''At the
Stroke of the Midnight Hour'': Lord Mountbatten and the British Media at
Indian Independence Chandrika Kaul 5. The Ending of an Empire: From
Imagined Communities to Nation States in India and Pakistan Yasmin Khan 6.
Casting ''the Kingdome into another mold'': Ghana's Troubled Transition to
Independence Richard Rathbone 7. Whose Freedom at Midnight? Machinations
towards Guyana's Independence, May 1966 Clem Seecharan 8. Freedom at
Midnight: A Microcosm of Zimbabwe's Hopes and Dreams at Independence, April
1980 Sue Onslow 9. 'Transfer of Destinies', or Business as Usual?
Republican Invented Tradition and the Problem of 'Independence' at the End
of the French Empire Martin Shipway 10. Merdeka! Looking Back at
Independence Day in Malaya, 31 August 1957 A.J. Stockwell