Decolonization: The Fall of the European Empires (Historical Association Studies)

M. E. Chamberlain

ISBN 10: 0631218041 / ISBN 13: 9780631218043

Published by Wiley-Blackwell; 2nd edition (17 Oct. 1999), 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Decolonization: The Fall of the European Empires (Historical Association Studies)
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 2nd edition (17 Oct. 1999)
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631218041
• ISBN 13: 9780631218043
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 2nd.
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 14.45W x 1.7H x 21.8D centimeters 14.45 centimeters width by 1.7 centimeters height by 21.8 centimeters depth

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Synopsis

This book charts the decolonization of Asia, Africa and the Caribbean from 1945 to the present day, analysing the ways in which countries separated themselves from the control of the European Powers.

About the Author

Muriel Chamberlain is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wales, Swansea. She is currently the editor of The Historian, the journal of the Historical Association and is an Associate Editor of The New Dictionary of National Biography. Her previous publications include Lord Aberdeen: a Political Biography (1983), Lord Palmerston (1987), Pax Britannica: British Foreign Policy, 1789-1914 (1988) and The Scramble for Africa (second edition 1999). She is also joint editor of an English edition of Friedrich Fabri’s Does Germany Need Colonies? (Ed. with Breuning, 1998).