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Routledge Library Editions: Colonialism and Imperialism- Turning Point in Africa British Colonial Policy 1938–48

Name: Routledge Library Editions: Colonialism and Imperialism- Turning Point in Africa
Author: Robert D. Pearce

Auteur: Robert D. Pearce

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Robert D. Pearce

Engels
Hardcover
9781032444918
03 mei 2023
234 pagina's

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The Turning Point in Africa (1982) is a significant study of British colonial policy towards tropical Africa during a critical decade, from the complacent trusteeship of the inter-war years to the strategy of decolonization inaugurated after the Second World War. Charting a course through a wide variety of official sources and private papers, the work assesses the importance for colonial policy of the Colonial Office, the Colonial Service, the Labour Party, African nationalists, and of ideological and moral preconceptions. The revolution in African policy is investigated with a wide and yet detailed approach. Special attention is devoted to the effects of the Second World War on Britain and its empire and to the importance of American anti-imperialist pressure on the British Government. The importance of three men – the adviser Lord Hailey, politician Arthur Creech Jones and civil servant Andrew Cohen – receives attention and an assessment is made of their contribution to a policy which, from 1948 onwards, led to a rapid decolonization in large parts of Africa. The significance of this policy is analysed in detail. The British aimed at ‘nation-building’: indirect rule was to be replaced by the forms of English-style local government while rapid constitutional progress at the centre was to be conceded, in accordance with a preconceived model, once powerful nationalist movements had arisen. However, as the book shows, progress at the centre was introduced prematurely and outstripped reform in local government so that progress was not the balanced development the British had wished to see. Decolonization had been given an irreversible momentum by British planning.

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Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 03 mei 2023
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Hoofdauteur: Robert D. Pearce
Hoofduitgeverij: Routledge

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