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The Afterlife of Empire
Jordanna Bailkin
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Description for The Afterlife of Empire
Paperback. Using a wealth of recently declassified files from the National Archives, oral histories, court cases, press reports, social science writings, and photographs, this book focuses on the relationship between the postwar and the postimperial. Series: Berkeley Series in British Studies. Num Pages: 380 pages, 26 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; 1DBK; HBJD; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 558.
The Afterlife of Empire is an award-winning investigation on how decolonization transformed British society in the 1950s and 1960s. Although usually charted through its diplomatic details, the collapse of the British empire was also a deeply personal process that altered everyday life, restructuring routines, individual relationships, and social interactions. The book traces a set of diverse yet interrelated and richly compelling stories: West Indian migrants repatriated for mental illness, young Britons volunteering in the former colonies, overseas students seeking higher education, polygamous husbands and wives facing invalidation of their marriages, West African children raised by white, working-class British families, and ... Read more
The Afterlife of Empire is an award-winning investigation on how decolonization transformed British society in the 1950s and 1960s. Although usually charted through its diplomatic details, the collapse of the British empire was also a deeply personal process that altered everyday life, restructuring routines, individual relationships, and social interactions. The book traces a set of diverse yet interrelated and richly compelling stories: West Indian migrants repatriated for mental illness, young Britons volunteering in the former colonies, overseas students seeking higher education, polygamous husbands and wives facing invalidation of their marriages, West African children raised by white, working-class British families, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
Series
Berkeley Series in British Studies
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520289475
SKU
V9780520289475
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About Jordanna Bailkin
Jordanna Bailkin is Giovanni and Amne Costigan Professor of History and Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Washington.
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