Imperial island : an alternative history of the British Empire / Charlotte Lydia Riley.
2024
DA566.2 .R55 2024
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Title
Imperial island : an alternative history of the British Empire / Charlotte Lydia Riley.
Edition
First Harvard University Press edition.
ISBN
9780674296916 electronic book
0674296915 electronic book
9780674296923 electronic book
0674296923 electronic book
9780674258495
0674258495
0674296915 electronic book
9780674296923 electronic book
0674296923 electronic book
9780674258495
0674258495
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2024.
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (313 pages)
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DA566.2 .R55 2024
Dewey Decimal Classification
325/.341
Summary
After the Second World War, Britain's overseas empire disintegrated. But over the next seventy years, empire came to define Britain and its people as never before. Drawing on a mass of new research, Riley tells a story of immigration and exclusion, social strife and cultural transformation. It is the story that best explains Britain today.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Empire's Shadows
1. Home and Away in the Second World War
2. The People's Peace: The Attlee Government, 1945-1951
3. Never Had It So Good?: Britain in the 1950s
4. Losing an Empire: Decolonization, 1950s-1960s
5. No Dogs, No Blacks, No Irish: Migration and Racism in the 1960s and 1970s
6. Britain's Troubled Conscience: Empire, War, and Famine in the 1980s
7. From Cool Britannia to Brexit Britain: Imperialism since the 1990s
Conclusion: Where We're Going, We Don't Need Rhodes
A Note on Sources
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Empire's Shadows
1. Home and Away in the Second World War
2. The People's Peace: The Attlee Government, 1945-1951
3. Never Had It So Good?: Britain in the 1950s
4. Losing an Empire: Decolonization, 1950s-1960s
5. No Dogs, No Blacks, No Irish: Migration and Racism in the 1960s and 1970s
6. Britain's Troubled Conscience: Empire, War, and Famine in the 1980s
7. From Cool Britannia to Brexit Britain: Imperialism since the 1990s
Conclusion: Where We're Going, We Don't Need Rhodes
A Note on Sources
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index