Titlebook: European Decolonization 1918–1981: An Introductory Survey; R. F. Holland Textbook 1985Latest edition R. F. Holland 1985 Colonialism.Europe

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-98913-0the demise of colonialism in Asia. R. Robinson and J. Gallagher pointed out some years ago that Europe’s acquisition of African territories in the latter part of the nineteenth century was simply ‘scraping the bottom of the barrel’ following more important seizures elsewhere;. but any expectation th

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-13548-7ther directly ruled by British administrations as Crown Colonies, or were self-governing entities within the British Empire-Commonwealth (the latter cases being those of South Africa and Southern Rhodesia). This by-passing of French, Belgian and Portuguese Africa is glaring given the vast physical e

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-91740-0nterpart. Thus the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya seems to retain something of a contemporary ambience, whereas recollections of British troops patrolling the streets of the Cypriot capital, Nicosia, have about them the musty bouquet of a dead age. The reasons for this are simple enough: the colonial issue

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Methodologisch-methodischer Hintergrund,s to this statement lay in southern Africa, where the entrenchment of white-settler society imposed a different time-scale on events. In the final section of this volume, therefore, the tangled story of Southern Rhodesia, and the final collapse of Portuguese rule in Africa after its long isolation f

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Europe’s Asian Stake: Adaptation, Restoration and Destruction search for some political deal which would disengage them from India with the least all-round costs, while the French and the Dutch were intent on renewing and revamping sets of local alliances which would allow them to re-enter the Indonesian and Indo-Chinese fastnesses from which they had been su