A propos de l'auteur
The editor, Wm. Roger Louis, is Kerr Professor of English History and Culture and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, an Honorary Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford, and a past President of the American Historical Association. His books include Ends of British afficher plus Imperialism (2006). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford History of the British Empire. In 2013, he was awarded the Benson Medal of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2016 he delivered the Weizmann Memorial Lecture. afficher moins
Œuvres de Wm. Roger Louis
The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume 1 : The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of… (1998) — Avant-propos; Directeur de publication — 259 exemplaires
The Oxford history of the British Empire, Volume 4 : The twentieth century (1999) — Directeur de publication — 155 exemplaires
The Oxford history of the British Empire, Volume 5 : Historiography (1999) — Directeur de publication — 135 exemplaires
Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez, and Decolonization (2006) 34 exemplaires
Imperialism at Bay: The United States and the Decolonization of the British Empire 1941-1945 (1978) 32 exemplaires
The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945-1951: Arab Nationalism, the United States, and Postwar Imperialism (1984) 24 exemplaires
The 1967 Arab-Israeli War: Origins and Consequences (Cambridge Middle East Studies) (1995) 20 exemplaires
In the Name of God, Go!: Leo Amery and the British Empire in the Age of Churchill (1992) 11 exemplaires
More Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain (1998) 11 exemplaires
Yet more adventures with Britannia : personalities, politics, and culture in Britain (2005) 11 exemplaires
Still More Adventures With Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain (2003) 10 exemplaires
The "Special Relationship": Anglo-American Relations Since 1945 (Clarendon Paperbacks) (1986) 7 exemplaires
Resurgent adventures with Britannia : personalities, politics and culture in Britain (2011) 7 exemplaires
Irrepressible Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain (2014) 7 exemplaires
A Revolutionary Year: The Middle East in 1958 (Library of Modern Middle East Studies) (2002) 7 exemplaires
Imperialism: The Robinson and Gallagher controversy (Modern scholarship on European history) (1976) — Directeur de publication — 7 exemplaires
Penultimate Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain (2007) 5 exemplaires
Ultimate Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain (2009) 5 exemplaires
Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands since the First World War (1979) — Directeur de publication — 3 exemplaires
Britannia 10: Effervescent Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain (2018) 3 exemplaires
Britannia 09: Resplendent Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain (2016) 3 exemplaires
Serendipitous Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain (2019) 1 exemplaire
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The Oxford history of the British Empire, Volume 2 : The eighteenth century (1998) — Series editor — 234 exemplaires
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Louis groups these essays into ten categories. After an introductory overview of Suez and decolonization, he provides an essay on colonial empires in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and four on “the scramble for Africa”. These are followed by four which examine the First World War and the mandates system, two on the British possessions of Singapore and Hong Kong, and four on India, Palestine and Egypt, which are linked together by the theme of impending independence. After five essays on decolonization in general, he includes six on aspects of the Suez crisis itself and four more on Britain’s withdrawal from the rest of the Middle East in its aftermath before finishing with three essays on the historiography of his field.
Though all but one of these essays have been published before now, bringing them together allows Louis to draw out three main themes. The first is the one which occasioned the volume – the study of Suez in the broader context of decolonization. This last, failed effort to hold onto the empire through force led the British to attempt to maintain some vestige of their influence through more informal means, which is the second theme of his collection. Finally, as British control gradually slipped, new states emerged throughout Africa and Asia; it is the consequences of their emergence which forms the final theme Louis emphasizes.
Taken together, these essays represent a formidable body of work on one of the key developments of modern times. Though some of the essays have been reworked, the basic scholarship within them remains as informative and insightful as it was when they were first published. Delving into the pages of this book provides insight not only into the demise of the British Empire, but into how it shaped and defined the world in which we live today. No student of British imperial history should be without this volume, and anyone interested in understanding the twentieth century will profit from reading it.… (plus d'informations)