First published in 1989. On the eve of the First World War, almost
72 million square kilometres of territory and more than 560 million
people were under colonial rule. By 1980 the European colonial
empires had disappeared from the map. Concentrating in particular
on the British Commonwealth and the French colonial empire, the
author shows how economic and political changes in the mother
countries, the awakening national consciousness of the African and
Asian peoples, and the effects of two World Wars had all compelled
Europe to decolonize. He argues that although a satisfactory new
order in world politics and the global economy has not been
achieved in the process, the dissolution of the empires came about
with remarkably little bloodshed, thereby laying a solid foundation
for the future. The author concludes by looking at the legacy of
the decolonized world in the late 1980s. He examines the last
bastion of European colonial domination (South Africa) and
discusses the emerging new North-South relations.
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