Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-5nwft Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-05-12T19:11:46.763Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Decolonization Craze

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2010

Robert Holland
Robert Holland
Affiliation:
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Decolonization
Information
Itinerario , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , July 1989 , pp. 103 - 112
Copyright
Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 1989

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Notes

1 Grimal, Henri, Decolonization: the British, French, Dutch, and Belgian Empires (London 1978).Google ScholarAlbertini, Rudolf von, Decolonization: The Administration and Future of the Colonies (1971)Google Scholar.

2 Holland, R.F., European Decolonization, 1918–81: An Introductory Survey (London 1985; reprinted 1987)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Louis, Prosser GifTord and Wm Roger eds., The Transfer of Power in Africa: Decolonization, 1940–60 (Yale 1982)Google Scholar; Marseille, Jacques, Empire colonial et capitalisme francais. Histoire d'un divorce (Paris 1984)Google Scholar; Kahler, Miles, Decolonization in Britain and France: The Domestic Consequences of International Relations (Princeton 1985)Google Scholar; Hargreaves, John, Decoloniza-tion in Africa (London 1988)Google Scholar; Darwin, John, Britain and Decolonization: The Retreat from Empire in the Post-War World (London 1988)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Porter, A. N'. and Stockwell, A.J., British Imperial Policy and Decolonization, 1938–1964. Volume I: 1938–1951 (London y1987)Google Scholar.

4 Holland, , European Decolonization, 205Google Scholar.

5 Hargreaves, , Decolonization in Africa, 3Google Scholar.

6 Darwin, , Britain and Decolonization, 24Google Scholar.

7 Stahl, Kathleen, The Metropolitan Organization of British Colonial Trade: four regional studies(London 1951)Google Scholar; Allen, G.C., Western Enterprise in Indonesia and Malaya: a study in economic development (London 1957)Google Scholar; Hopkins, A.G., An Economic History of West Africa (London 1973)Google Scholar; Tomlinson, B.R., The Political Economy of the Raj, 1914–47: The Economics of Decolonization (London 1976)Google Scholar; Fieldhouse, D.K., Black Africa, 1945–80: Decolonization and Arrested Development (London 1986)Google Scholar.

8 Home, Alastair, A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954–62 (London 1978)Google Scholar.

9 Talbot, John, The War Without a Name: France in Algeria, 1954–62 (London 1981)Google Scholar.

10 Austin, Dennis, Politics in Ghana, 1946–60 (London 1964)Google Scholar.

11 Throup, David, The Origins of Mau Mau (London 1988)Google Scholar.

12 Mordechai, J., The West Indies: the federal negotiations (1968)Google Scholar.

13 Austen, Dennis, Malta and the End of Empire (London 1978).Google ScholarAmong the studies on Cyprus may be mentioned Doros Alastos, Cyprus Guerilla: Grivas, Makarios and the British (London 1960), arguably still the most suggestive work on the 'operational' aspects of the struggleGoogle Scholar; Foley, Charles, Island in Revolt (London 1966), an excellent memoirGoogle Scholar; Grouzet, Francois, Le Conjlit de Chypre, 1956–9 (2 vols., Paris 1973)Google Scholar; Crawshaw, Nancy, The Cyprus Revolt (London 1978)Google Scholar; Mayes, Stanley, Makarios: A Biography (London 1981)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and most recently Reddaway, John, Burdened with Cyprus: The British Connection (London 1980),Google Scholar which, as its highly loaded title implies, views events entirely (if intelligently) from the perspective of the presiding power. Works on the British in Greece are: Woodhouse, CM., The Struggle for Greece (London 1976)Google Scholar and Richter, Eugene, British Intervention in Greece (London 1985)Google Scholar.

14 SeeLouis, Wm. Roger, The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945–51: Arab Nationalism, the United States, and Post-War Imperialism (London 1984)Google Scholar.

15 In 1936 General Francisco Franco launched his attack on the legitimate Republican Government in Madrid from his military headquarters in Spanish Morocco. In 1958 the events which led to the fall of the French Fourth Republic began in Algiers, and had a subsidiary focus in Corsica.

16 Huntingdon, Samuel, ‘The Great Power of Renewal’, The Times, 23 02 1989Google Scholar.