1st Edition
Decolonising Europe? Popular Responses to the End of Empire
Introduction: Making Sense of the End of Empire: Fluxes and Flows in Decolonising Europe?
Berny Sebe and Matthew G. Stanard
PART I
Meaning: Making Sense of Decolonisation
1. Magna Carta and the End of Empire
Amanda Behm
2. The End of Empire and the Four Nations
John M. MacKenzie
3. Reverberations of Decolonisation: British Approaches to Governance in Post-colonial Africa and the Rise of the ‘Strong Men’
Christopher Prior
PART II
Media: Words and Images of the End of Empire
4. The Semantics of Decolonisation: The Public Debate on the New Guinea Question in the Netherlands, 1950-62
Vincent Kuitenbrouwer
5. Decolonisation and the Press: A Path to Pluralism in Franco’s Spain, ca. 1950-75
Sasha D. Pack
PART III
Memory: Recalling Empire in Post-imperial Worlds
6. Afterlives of Colonialism in the Everyday: Street Names and the (Un)Making of Imperial Debris
Britta Schilling
7. Passing the Point of No Return: Italy’s Regretted End of Empire and the Mogadishu Massacre of 1948
Giuseppe Finaldi
8. Oases of Imperial Nostalgia: British and French Desert Memories after Empire
Berny Sèbe
9. Questioning Portugal’s Social Cohesion, and Preparing Post-imperial Memory: Returned Settlers (retornados) and Portuguese Society, 1975-80
Isabel dos Santos Lourenço and Alexander Keese
PART IV
Material Culture: Tactile Rémanences
10. Ephemera and the Dynamics of Colonial Memory
Charles Forsdick
11. Domestic Museums of Decolonisation? Objects, Colonial Officials, and the Afterlives of Empire in Britain
Chris Jeppesen and Sarah Longair
12. Decongolizing Europe? African Art and Post-Colony Belgium
Matthew G. Stanard
PART V
Momentum: Decolonisation and its Aftermath
Afterword: Diverging Experiences of Decolonisation
Wm. Roger Louis
Biography
Berny Sèbe is Senior Lecturer in Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK
Matthew G. Stanard is Professor of History at Berry College, USA
