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Winding up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands (Paperback)
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Winding up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands (Paperback)
Series: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
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Little has been written about when, how and why the British
Government changed its mind about giving independance to the
Pacific Islands. Using recently opened archives, Winding Up the
British Empire in the Pacific Islands gives the first detailed
account of this event. As Britain began to dissolve the Empire in
Asia in the aftermath of the Second World War, it announced that
there were some countries that were so small, remote, and lacking
in resources that they could never become independent states.
However, between 1970 and 1980 there was a rapid about-turn.
Accelerated decolonization suddenly became the order of the day.
Here was the death warrant of the Empire, and hastily-arranged
independence ceremonies were performed for six new states - Tonga,
Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Vanuatu. The rise of
anti-imperialist pressures in the United Nations had a major role
in this change in policy, as did the pioneering examples marked by
the release of Western Samoa by New Zealand in 1962 and Nauru by
Australia in 1968. The tenacity of Pacific Islanders in maintaining
their cultures was in contrast to more strident Afro-Asia
nationalisms. The closing of the Colonial Office, by merger with
the Commonwealth Relations Office in 1966, followed by the joining
of the Commonwealth and Foreign Offices in 1968, became a major
turning point in Britain's relations with the Islands. In place of
long-nurtured traditions of trusteeship for indigenous populations
that had evolved in the Colonial Office, the new Foreign &
Commonwealth Office concentrated on fostering British interests,
which came to mean reducing distant commitments and focussing on
the Atlantic world and Europe.
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