The British Empire in the 1950s
Subtitle: retreat or revival?
By: edited by Martin Lynn.
Contributors: Lynn, Martin, 1951-; Wiles Colloquium (2004 : Queen's University of Belfast)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Imperialism -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses; Decolonization -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally presented as papers at the Wiles Colloquium held at Queen's University, Belfast on 9-10 Sept. 2004.
Table of contents: title: Was there a fourth British Empire? / John Darwin; title: Keeping change within bounds : a Whitehall reassessment / S.R. Ashton; title: "Government by blackmail" : the origins of the  Central African Federation reconsidered / Philip Murphy; title: African prospects : mining the empire from Britain in the 1950s / Sarah Stockwell; title: Decolonisation in the 1950s : the version according to British business / Nicholas J. White; title: Things fall apart : the erosion of local government, local justice and civil rights in Ghana, 1955-60 / Richard Rathbone; title: "We cannot let the North down" : British policy and Nigeria in the 1950s / Martin Lynn; title: Anglo-American revival and empire during the Macmillan years, 1957-63 / Nigel J. Ashton; title: Public enemy number one : the British Empire in the dock at the United Nations 1957-1971 / Wm. Roger Louis; title: When (if ever) did Empire end? : "internal decolonisation" in British culture since the 1950s / Stephen Howe.