Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Maps
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 ‘The whole world is rocking’: British governments and a dysfunctional imperial system, 1918–1945
- 2 ‘British imperialism is dead’: the Attlee government and the end of empire, 1945–1951
- 3 ‘Rugged and tangled difficulties’: the Churchill and Eden governments and the end of empire, 1951–1956
- 4 ‘The wind of change is blowing’: the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments and the end of empire,1957–1964
- 5 'We could no longer afford to honour our pledges': the Wilson government and the end of empire, 1964–1968
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Select bibliography
- Index
List of abbreviations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Maps
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 ‘The whole world is rocking’: British governments and a dysfunctional imperial system, 1918–1945
- 2 ‘British imperialism is dead’: the Attlee government and the end of empire, 1945–1951
- 3 ‘Rugged and tangled difficulties’: the Churchill and Eden governments and the end of empire, 1951–1956
- 4 ‘The wind of change is blowing’: the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments and the end of empire,1957–1964
- 5 'We could no longer afford to honour our pledges': the Wilson government and the end of empire, 1964–1968
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- Britain's Declining EmpireThe Road to Decolonisation, 1918–1968, pp. xvi - xviiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007