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Imperial Endgame - Britain's Dirty Wars and the End of Empire (Paperback, New)
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Imperial Endgame - Britain's Dirty Wars and the End of Empire (Paperback, New)
Series: Britain and the World
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The story of the British Empire in the twentieth century is one of
decline, disarray, and despondency. Or so we have been told. In
this fresh and controversial account of Britain's end of empire,
Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon rejects this consensus, showing instead
that in the years 1945-1960 the British government developed a
successful imperial strategy based on devolving power to indigenous
peoples within the Commonwealth. This strategy was calculated to
allow decolonization to occur on British terms rather than those of
the indigenous populations, and thus to keep these soon-to-be
former colonies within the British and Western spheres of influence
during the Cold War. To achieve this new form of informal liberal
imperialism, however, the government had to rely upon the use of
illiberal dirty wars. Spanning the globe from Palestine to Malaya,
Kenya to Cyprus, these dirty wars represented Britain's true
imperial endgame.
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