| British Culture and the End of Empire Contributor(s): Thompson, Andrew (Editor), Ward, Stuart (Editor), MacKenzie, John M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0719060486 ISBN-13: 9780719060489 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $26.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2001 Annotation: The demise of the British Empire in the three decades following the Second World War is a theme that has been well traversed in studies of post-war British politics, economics and foreign relations. Yet there has been strikingly little attention to the question of how these dramatic changes in Britain's relationships with the wider world were reflected in British culture. This volume addresses this central issue, arguing that the social and cultural impact of decolonisation had as significant an effect on the imperial centre as on the colonial periphery. Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested, the fall of the British Empire came as a profound shock to the British national imagination, and resonated widely in British popular culture. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 941.082 |
| LCCN: 2001054361 |
| Series: Studies in Imperialism (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.18" W x 9.2" (0.87 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is the first major attempt to examine the cultural manifestations of the demise of imperialism as a social and political ideology in post-war Britain. Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested, the fall of the British Empire came as a profound shock to the British national imagination, and resonated widely in British popular culture. The sheer range of subjects discussed, from the satire boom of the 1960s to the worlds of sport and the arts, demonstrates how profoundly decolonisation was absorbed into the popular consciousness. Offers an extremely novel and provocative interpretation of post-war British cultural history, and opens up a whole new field of enquiry in the history of decolonisation. |