Decolonization.

By: Betts, RaymondContributor(s): Betts, Raymond FMaterial type: TextTextSeries: The Making of the Contemporary World SerPublisher: London : Routledge, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (139 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203598481Subject(s): Decolonization - HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: DecolonizationDDC classification: 325.309045 LOC classification: D843 \.B48Online resources: Click to View
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Summary: Raymond F. Betts considers the 'process' of decolonization and the outcomes which have left a legacy of problems, drawing on numerous examples including Ghana, India, Rwanda and Hong Kong. He examines: the effects of the two World Wars on the colonial empire the expectations and problems created by independence the major demographic shifts accompanying the end of the empire the cultural experiences, literary movements, and the search for ideology of the dying empire and the newly independent nations. With an annotated bibliography and a chronology of political decolonization, Decolonization gives a concise, original and multi-disciplinary introduction to this controversial theme and analyzes what the future holds beyond the empire.
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Raymond F. Betts considers the 'process' of decolonization and the outcomes which have left a legacy of problems, drawing on numerous examples including Ghana, India, Rwanda and Hong Kong. He examines: the effects of the two World Wars on the colonial empire the expectations and problems created by independence the major demographic shifts accompanying the end of the empire the cultural experiences, literary movements, and the search for ideology of the dying empire and the newly independent nations. With an annotated bibliography and a chronology of political decolonization, Decolonization gives a concise, original and multi-disciplinary introduction to this controversial theme and analyzes what the future holds beyond the empire.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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