Decolonisation

Bernard Porter argues that the 'End of Empire' unravelled British domestic politics as well as her international outlook.

John McLeod presents a study from the last days of the Raj of an Indian ruler who defied the stereotype of princely extravagance and self-indulgence.

Karl Hack on the links between dams and decolonisation and the ups and downs of Anglo-Malaysian relations.

Martin Evans looks at the aftermath of the struggle for Algerian independence from France.

Anthony Kirk-Greene looks at the remarkably rapid 'end of empire' of Britain in Africa, and argues that perspective and objectivity can now yield a useful stocktaking.

The brutal war to maintain white supremacy in what is now Zimbabwe eventually led to the rule of Robert Mugabe.

John D. Hargreaves discusses cultural reconstruction and its political implications.

The legacy of empire brought nearly half a million blacks and Asians to Britain in the fifties in search of a better life.

The ability of Jinnah to unite a series of political expediencies with the popular appeal of Islam to demand a separate state for the Muslim people, has brought him the accolade 'the founder of Pakistan'. 

In 1844 the people of the former Spanish colony of Santo Domingo rose in rebellion against the Haitians who had occupied their island since 1822. But instead of trying to establish genuine independence for their Dominican Republic, its political leaders did their best to trade it off to France and then to Spain which briefly re-annexed it in 1861.