Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa : Future Imperfect? /
Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of 'late colonial shift' after 1945. Rather than view decolonization as an inevitable process, the contributors together explor...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : development, contingency and entanglement : decolonization in the conditional / Andrew W.M. Smith and Chris Jeppesen
- Nation, state and agency : evolving historiographies of African decolonization / Michael Collins
- 'The winds of change are blowing economically' : the Labour Party and British overseas development, 1940s-1960s / Charlotte Lydia Riley
- 'Oil will set us free' : the hydrocarbon industry and the Algerian decolonization process / Marta Musso
- Future imperfect : colonial futures, contingencies and the end of French empire / Andrew W.M. Smith
- The dynamics of anti-apartheid : international solidarity, human rights and decolonization / Robert Skinner
- 'A worthwhile career for a man who is not entirely self-seeking' : service, duty and the Colonial Service during decolonization / Chris Jeppesen
- Protecting empire from without : francophone African migrant workers, British West Africa and French efforts to maintain power in Africa, 1945-1960 / Joanna Warson
- Afterword : Achilles and the tortoise : the tortoise's view of late colonialism and decolonization / Martin Shipway.