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Allies at the End of Empire - Loyalists, Nationalists and the Cold War, 1945-76 (Paperback)
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Allies at the End of Empire - Loyalists, Nationalists and the Cold War, 1945-76 (Paperback)
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The wars of decolonization fought by European colonial powers after
1945 had their origins in the fraught history of imperial
domination, but were framed and shaped by the emerging politics of
the Cold War. In all the counter-insurgencies mounted against armed
nationalist risings in this period, the European colonial powers
employed locally recruited militias - styled as 'loyalists' - to
fight their 'dirty wars'. These loyalist histories have been
neglected in the nationalist narratives that have dominated the
post-decolonization landscape, and this book offers the first
comparative assessment of the role played by these allies at the
end of empire. Their experience illuminates the deeper ambiguities
of the decolonization story: some loyalists were subjected to
vengeful violence at liberation; others actually claimed the
victory for themselves and seized control of the emergent state;
while others still maintained a role as fighting units into the
Cold War. The overlap between the history of decolonization and the
emergence of the Cold War is a central theme in the studies
presented here. The collection discusses the categorization of
these 'irregular auxiliary' forces after 1945, and presents seven
case studies from five European colonialisms, covering nine former
colonies - Portugal (Angola), the Netherlands (Indonesia), France
(Algeria), Belgium (Congo) and Britain (Cyprus, Kenya, Aden, South
Yemen and Oman). This book was originally published as a special
issue of the International History Review.
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