1st Edition
Allies at the End of Empire Loyalists, Nationalists and the Cold War, 1945-76
Introduction: Allies at the End of Empire—Loyalists, Nationalists and the Cold War, 1945–76 David M. Anderson and Daniel Branch
1. Irregular Auxiliaries after 1945 Sibylle Scheipers
2. ‘Gathered on the Point of a Bayonet’: the Negara Pasundan and the Colonial Defence of Indonesia, 1946–50 Roel Frakking
3. Making the Loyalist Bargain: Surrender, Amnesty and Impunity in Kenya’s Decolonization, 1952–63 David M. Anderson
4. Toads and Informers: How the British Treated their Collaborators during the Cyprus Emergency, 1955–9 David French
5. Reprisal Violence and the Harkis in French Algeria, 1962 Martin Evans
6. The suppression of the Congo rebellions and the rise of Mobutu, 1963–5 Ludo De Witte
7. Saved by the Civil War: African ‘Loyalists’ in the Portuguese Armed Forces and Angola’s Transition to Independence Pedro Aires Oliveira
8. Out of Arabia: British Strategy and the Fate of Local Forces in Aden, South Yemen, and Oman, 1967–76 Rob Johnson
Biography
David M. Anderson is Professor of African History in the Global History and Culture Centre at the University of Warwick, UK. He has published widely on the history and politics of eastern Africa, including The Khat Controversy (2007), and Histories of the Hanged (2005). He is the editor of The Routledge Handbook of African Politics (2013). He is currently engaged in wider research on the history of empire and violence.
Daniel Branch is Professor of Modern African History at the University of Warwick, UK. He is theauthor of Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya (2009), and Kenya: Between Hope and Despair 1963-2012 (2011). He is now researching a book about the life of Tom Mboya, Kenya’s most charismatic political leader of the 1960s.
