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Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation book cover

1st Edition

Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation

Edited By H. Kumarasingham Copyright 2020
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge
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Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation explores the subject of liberalism and its uses and contradictions across the late British Empire, especially in the context of imperial dissolution and subsequent state- building. The book covers multiple regions and issues concerning the British Empire and the Commonwealth, in particular the period ranging from the late-nineteenth century... Read more

Introduction: Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation

H. Kumarasingham

1. The Plural Society: Labour and the Commonwealth Idea 1900-1964

Pippa Catterall

2. Imperial Citizenship or Else: Liberal Ideals and the Indian Unmaking of Empire, 1890-1919

Mark R. Frost

3. Written Differently: A Survey of Commonwealth Constitutional History in the Age of Decolonisation

H. Kumarasingham

4. An Acutely Embarrassing Affair: Whitehall and the Indian-South African Dispute at the United Nations (1946)

Lorna Lloyd

5: A Liberal Ghost? The Left, Liberal Democracy and the Legacy of Harold Laski’s Teaching

Brant Moscovitch

6. The Post-Colonial Constitutional Order of the Commonwealth Caribbean: The Endurance of the Crown and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

Derek O’Brien

7. Primitive Liberals and Pirate Tribes: Black-Flag Radicalism and the Kibbo Kift

Hana Qugana and Simon Layton

8. Imperial Liberalism and Institution Building at the End of Empire in Africa

Sarah Stockwell

Biography

H. Kumarasingham is Senior Lecturer in British Politics and a Political Historian at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research is especially concerned with the constitutional and political manifestations of decolonisation in multiple parts of the British Empire.

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