Eclipse of Empire - Softcover

Low, D. A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521457548 ISBN 13: 9780521457545

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Eclipse of Empire brings together the work of one of the foremost historians of the recent colonial experience to provide comprehensive outline accounts of the end of the British Empire in India and in Africa, and to assess the many sociopolitical ramifications of this process. No other study has approached the whole twentieth century decolonization process so comprehensively.

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Book Description

This account of the twentieth century British decolonization process in India and Africa assesses its many broader sociopolitical consequences, including the vast political changes occurring in Asia as well as the political debacles in post-independence Africa.

Review

"Eclipse of Empire is a real historical tour de force. Comprehensive, informed, well-balanced and erudite, it will herald the take-off point for future analyses of the transformations brought about by the formal end-of-European-empire in Asia and Africa." International Journal of African Historical Studies

"Low's achievement is to have analysed this dialectic at work in a wide variety of Asian and African settings, bringing out the generic patterns while also respecting the uniqueness of each case. His is a formidable contribution indeed." The International History Review

"On the whole Prof. D. A. Low has given us a readable and thought-provoking volume. He moves backward and forward over factual details with ease and comfort. His command over primary and secondary sources is amazing. In short he has given us a valuable collection of papers immensely useful to the students and specialists of the Empire and Commonwealth, twentieth-century political history and Asian, African and Australian studies." C. S. Krishna, The Hindu

"This is a required work for historians, political scientists, area studies specialists, and students of imperialism, and is essential reading for graduate and upper-division undergraduate students." Choice

"...a series of learned and evocative essays on the end of empire, especially in Asia and Africa....this work serves as a useful reminder that new world orders are indeed sequential." Foreign Affairs

"D. A. Low, in clear and concise terms, describes the rise of nationalist movements in British India and British Africa....gives the reader a clearer insight into the British response to the rise of nationalism in Britain's diverse empire of Asia and Africa....Low has made his enlightened views more accessible....also provides new insights into the successes and failures of the young nations that were created out of the British imperial structure." Wallace Cross, History

"Anthony Low...is perhaps the outstanding historian of British imperialism writing today...All the essays here operate at a high level of clarity, and no scholar interested in the exercise of power between peoples, in empire, in south Asia, in Africa, or in the Pacific should fail to learn from this clarity." Albion

"Low's reflections deserve a wide readership." L.E. Meyer, Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism

"This is a lucidly written book, typically D.A. Low in style, humor, and an arresting antidote to imperial nostalgia." Atieno Odhiambo, Ethno History

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521457548
• ISBN 13: 9780521457545
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392