The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire offers the most comprehensive treatment of the causes, course, and consequences of the collapse of empires in the twentieth century. The volume's contributors convey the global reach of decolonization, analysing the ways in which European, Asian, and African empires disintegrated over the past century.
The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire offers the most comprehensive treatment of the causes, course, and consequences of the ends of empire in the twentieth century. The volume's contributors convey the global reach of decolonization, with chapters analysing the empires of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, China and Japan.
The Handbook combines broad, regional treatments of decolonization with chapter contributions constructed around particular themes or social issues. It considers how the history of decolonization is being rethought as a result of the rise of the 'new' imperial history, and its emphasis on race, gender, and culture, as well as the more recent growth of interest in histories of globalization, transnational history, and histories of migration and diaspora, humanitarianism and development, and human rights.
The Handbook, in other words, seeks to identify the processes and commonalities of experience that make decolonization a unique historical phenomenon with a lasting resonance. In light of decades of historical and social scientific scholarship on modernization, dependency, neo-colonialism, 'failed state' architectures and post-colonial conflict, the obvious question that begs itself is 'when did empires actually end?' In seeking to unravel this most basic dilemma the Handbook explores the relationship between the study of decolonization and the study of globalization. It connects histories of the late-colonial and post-colonial worlds, and considers the legacies of empire in European and formerly colonised societies.
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There are several overarching themes to the work: historicising decolonisation, unpicking the deeply complex relationship between decolonisation and globalisation - decolonisation was both a globalised and a globalising force, especially in the context of the Cold War - and shedding light upon the integral role played by asymmetric violence in decolonisation processes. This wide-ranging approach leads the reader on an odyssey through political thought, guerrilla warfare, architecture, cinema, and memory, to name but a few; bringing many diverse threads of research into a satisfyingly comprehensive volume * David Kenrick, Diplomacy & Statecraft * This impressive volume deserves to be essential reading for all students of decolonisation and, considering as it does an unusually broad range of empires, offers an original and refreshing corrective to many of the classic texts on decolonisation * Peter Brooke, History * The range of topics covered is impressive and reflects the directions being followed in the existing scholarship. It is particularly good to see that the current lively fields of humanitarianism, development history, colonial violence, and the intersections between Cold War politics and decolonization are well represented. The material on refugees and migration speaks to contemporary political concerns persuasively and deftly * Charlotte Lydia Walker, The Journal of British Studies *
AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Rethinking decolonization: A New Research Agenda for the 21st Century1918 and the End of Europe's Land Empires, Robert GerwarthAn Empire Unredeemed: Tracing the Ottoman State's Path towards Collapse, Ryan GingerasPart I: National Perspectives1. Britain, Sarah E. Stockwell2. France: the longue dur^é^e of French Decolonization, Emmanuelle Saada3. Germany, Andreas Eckert4. Exceptional Italy? The Many Ends of the Italian Colonial Empire, Nicola Labanca5. Apr^è^s nous, le d^é^luge: Belgium, Decolonization, and the Congo, Matthew G. Stanard6. Portugal, Norrie MacQueen7. The Collapse of the Romanov Empire, Alexey Miller8. Empire by Imitation? US Economic Imperialism within a British World System, Marc-William Palen9. Rethinking Empire: Lessons from Imperial and Post Imperial Japan, Louise Conrad Young10. China, Tehyun MaPart II: Regional Perspectives11. Decolonization in South Asia: The Long View, Joya Chatterji12. Global Wars and Decolonization in East and South East Asia, 1927-1954, Christopher Goscha13. The End of Empire in the Maghreb: The Common Heritage and Distinct Destinies of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, Sylvie Th^é^nault14. Decolonization in Tropical Africa, Frederick Cooper15. The Caribbean, Spencer Mawby16. Eastern Europe, James Mark and Quinn Slobodian17. Decolonization and the Arid World, Robert S. G. Fletcher18. The Open Ends of the Dutch Empire and the Indonesian Past: Sites, Scholarly Networks, and Moral Geographies of Greater India across Decolonization, Marieke BloembergenPart III: Thematic Perspectives19. Self-determination and Decolonization, Brad Simpson20. Anti-colonialism, Christopher J. Lee21. Unravelling the Relationships between Humanitarianism, Human Rights, and Decolonization: Time for a Radical Rethink?, Andrew Thompson22. Decolonization and Cold War, Piero Gleijeses23. Violence, Insurgency, and Ends of Empire, Martin Thomas24. Nationalism, Development, and Welfare Colonialism: Gender and the Dynamics of Decolonization, Barbara Bush25. Repressive Developmentalism: Idioms, Repertoires, and Trajectories in Late Colonialism, Miguel Bandeira Jer^ó^nimo26. Islamic Revolutionaries and the End of Empire, David Motadel27. Refugees and the End of Empire, Panikos PanayiPart IV: Legacies and Memories28. Postcolonial Migrations to Europe, Elizabeth Buettner29. Beyond Dependency: North-South Relationships in the Age of Development, Joseph Morgan Hodge30. Imperial Business Interests, Decolonization and Post- Colonial Diversification, Nicholas J. White31. Film and the End of Empire: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Colonial Pasts and their Legacy in World Cinemas, Paul Cooke32. Remnants of Empire, Michael J. Parsons33. Literature and Decolonization, Charles Forsdick34. Apologies, Restitutions and Compensation: Making Reparations for Colonialism, Robert Aldrich
Martin Thomas is Professor of Imperial History and Director of the Centre for Histories of Violence and Conflict at the University of Exeter. A specialist in the politics of contested decolonization, his most recent publications are Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918-1940 (2012), Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire (2014), and, with co-author Richard Toye, Arguing about Empire: Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France (2017). He is an Independent Social Research Foundation Fellow and coordinator of a Leverhulme Trust research network, Understanding Insurgencies: Resonances from the Colonial Past.
Andrew Thompson's previous publications include The Empire Strikes Back? The Impact of Imperialism on Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century (2005), Empire and Globalisation. Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c.1850-1914 (2010), and an edited collection, Britain's Experience of Empire in the Twentieth Century (2011). He is currently Professor of Global and Imperial History at the University of Oxford and Co-Director of the Oxford Centre for Global History. He is a Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College. He serves on the editorial boards of South African Historical Journal and Twentieth Century British History.
