Winding up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands
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- Kiadó OUP Oxford
- Megjelenés dátuma 2016. október 13.
- ISBN 9780198794677
- Kötéstípus Puhakötés
- Terjedelem298 oldal
- Méret 233x157x16 mm
- Súly 454 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk 1 black and white map 0
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Rövid leírás:
The first detailed account - based on recently-opened archives - of when, how, and why the British Government changed its mind about giving independence to the Pacific Islands.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
Little has been written about when, how and why the British Government changed its mind about giving independance to the Pacific Islands. Using recently opened archives, Winding Up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands gives the first detailed account of this event. As Britain began to dissolve the Empire in Asia in the aftermath of the Second World War, it announced that there were some countries that were so small, remote, and lacking in resources that they could never become independent states. However, between 1970 and 1980 there was a rapid about-turn. Accelerated decolonization suddenly became the order of the day. Here was the death warrant of the Empire, and hastily-arranged independence ceremonies were performed for six new states - Tonga, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Vanuatu.
The rise of anti-imperialist pressures in the United Nations had a major role in this change in policy, as did the pioneering examples marked by the release of Western Samoa by New Zealand in 1962 and Nauru by Australia in 1968. The tenacity of Pacific Islanders in maintaining their cultures was in contrast to more strident Afro-Asia nationalisms. The closing of the Colonial Office, by merger with the Commonwealth Relations Office in 1966, followed by the joining of the Commonwealth and Foreign Offices in 1968, became a major turning point in Britain's relations with the Islands. In place of long-nurtured traditions of trusteeship for indigenous populations that had evolved in the Colonial Office, the new Foreign & Commonwealth Office concentrated on fostering British interests, which came to mean reducing distant commitments and focussing on the Atlantic world and Europe.
McIntyres work draws larger historiographical implications that locate the origins of the decolonization process in the nineteenth century. When one adds McIntyres meticulous research to these observations, one can only conclude that his work deserves the full attention of scholars and interested readers concerned with the last stages of the British Empire.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Preface
Prologue
PART I: Oceania Overview
'Imperialism, as such, is a newly coined word': Empire and Oceania
'The task of "Empire-Unbuilding" is a Difficult One': Decolonization
'Britain's Withdrawal East of Suez is also a Withdrawal West of Panama'. The End in the Pacific: When, Why, and How?
PART II: Holding On
'A Dramatic and Liberal Gesture': Attlee's Secret Smaller Territories Enquiry, 1949-51
'Limbo', 'Mezzanine Status', and 'Independence Minus': Self-Government within the Commonwealth
'Something of a Profit and Loss Account': Macmillan's Audit of Empire and Aftermath, 1957-60
PART III: Letting Go
'The Cold War Front is Advancing Upon Oceania': Pressures from the United Nations, 1960-61
'To Complete the Process of Decolonization as soon as Possible': Whitehall's Response to the UN Declaration, 1962-64
'Coming to the Most Difficult Period of Decolonization': The Lady Margaret Hall Conference, 1965
'A Line Would have to be Drawn Somewhere': Oceania and the Paradox of the Expanding United Nations, 1965-68
PART IV: Winding Up
'The British Empire is Past History'. Retreat from 'Never' Land Begins: Tonga and Fiji, 1970
'Independence and Self-Government have the Same Value': Self-Determination for Niue, 1970-74
'It is More Blessed to Go than be Pushed': The 1973 Programme Analysis and Review
'To Encourage Australia and New Zealand to Take a Larger Share': The Anzac Role in Decolonization
'Liquidating Colonial Arrangements with as much Speed as could be Decently Mustered'. Accelerated Decolonization: Solomon Islands
'We Cannot Now Apply the Brakes'. Accelerated Decolonization: Gilbert and Ellice Islands, 1975-78
'The Most Difficult Pre-Independence Conference We have had for a Pacific Territory'. Accelerated Decolonization: Kiribati and Banaba, 1968-79
'The Dying Art of Decolonization is Difficult to Pursue in a Condominium'. Accelerated Decolonization: New Hebrides
Epilogue
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