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Dependent Empire, 1900-1948: Colonies, Protectorates, and Mandates Select Documents on the Constitutional History of the British Empire and Commonw

Dependent Empire, 1900-1948: Colonies, Protectorates, and Mandates Select Documents on the Constitutional History of the British Empire and Commonw

Rizvi, Gowher
Madden, Frederick
Darwin, John

Hardcover

Series: Documents in Imperial History

General European HistoryGeneral World HistoryImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 0313273189
ISBN13: 9780313273186
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: Dec 30 1994
Pages: 912
Weight: 3.15
Height: 1.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The penultimate volume in this documentary series covers the first part of the 20th century processes of decolonization within the British Empire, concluding with the independence of Ceylon, the first of the non-European-settled colonies. It also illustrates constitutional developments in the West Indies (particularly Jamaica, Trinidad, and British Guiana), Mauritius and Seychelles, Hong Kong, Fiji, the Western Pacific, Gibraltar, the Falklands, and West, East, and Central-Southern Africa, as well as advance and retreat in Malta and Cyprus. There is a section on Egypt and on the mandates of Palestine, Transjordania, and Mesopotamia.

An introductory section demonstrates the changes both in attitudes to and the dimensions of colonial rule during the period from the deep freeze of trusteeship to partnership. The concluding date saw, in addition to Ceylon's full membership in the Commonwealth, the speedy replacement of an abortive union of Malaya by a federation, a failed initiative in Cyprus, and what proved to be abortive reform in Hong Kong and Fiji, treaty revision in Egypt, a policy change in the Sudan, the surrender of the Palestine mandate, and the establishment of Israel. By 1948, though doubts remained about a closer association of the colonies, protectorates, and mandates in West, East, and Central Africa, there was optimism about a possible federation of the Caribbean.

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