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Winding up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands (Hardcover)
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Winding up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
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Winding Up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands is the first
detailed account, based on recently-opened archives, of when, how,
and why the British Government changed its mind about giving
independence to the Pacific Islands. 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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