Decolonising Europe? - Popular Responses to the End of Empire (Hardcover)

Decolonising Europe? Popular Responses to the End of Empire offers a new paradigm to understand decolonisation in Europe by showing how it was fundamentally a fluid process of fluxes and refluxes involving not only transfers of populations, ideas, and sociocultural practices across continents but also complex intra-European dynamics at a time of political convergence following the Treaty of Rome. Decolonisation was neither a process of sudden, rapid changes to European cultures nor one of cultural inertia, but a development marked by fluidity, movement, and dynamism. Rather than being a static process where Europe's (former) metropoles and their peoples 'at home' reacted to the end of empire 'out there', decolonisation translated into new realities for Europe's cultures, societies, and politics as flows, ebbs, fluxes, and cultural refluxes reshaped both former colonies and former metropoles. The volume's contributors set out a carefully crafted panorama of decolonisation's sequels in European popular culture by means of in-depth studies of specific cases and media, analysing the interwoven meaning, momentum, memory, material culture, and migration patterns of the end of empire across eight major European countries. The revised meaning of 'decolonisation' that emerges will challenge scholars in several fields, and the panorama of new research in the book charts paths for new investigations. The question mark in the title asks not only how European cultures experienced the 'end of empire' but also the extent to which this is still a work in progress.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Empire and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-2000
Release date:	April 2020
First published:	2020
Editors:	Berny Sebe • Matthew G Stanard
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-13960-5
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Regional geography Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Colonization & independence Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-367-13960-X
Barcode:	9780367139605

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