Break-Up of Greater Britain
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British Empire
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Greater Britain
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- ISBN 9781526147424
- Weight: 640g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Oct 2021
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This is the first major attempt to view the break-up of Britain as a global phenomenon, incorporating peoples and cultures of all races and creeds that became embroiled in the liquidation of the British Empire in the decades after the Second World War. A team of leading historians are assembled here to view a familiar problem through an unfamiliar lens, ranging from India, to China, Southern Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the Falklands, Gibraltar and the United Kingdom itself. At a time when trace-elements of Greater Britain have resurfaced in British politics, animating the febrile polemics of Brexit, these essays offer a sober historical perspective. More than perhaps at any other time since the empire’s precipitate demise, it is imperative to gain a fresh purchase on the global challenges to British identities in the twentieth century.
Christian D. Pedersen is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Southern Denmark
Stuart Ward is Professor and Head of the Saxo Institute for History, Archeology, Ethnology and Classics at Copenhagen University
