The British end of the British empire /
How did decolonization impact on Britain itself? And how did Britain manage its transition from colonial power to postcolonial nation? Sarah Stockwell explores this question principally via the history of the overseas engagements of key institutions that had acquired roles within Britain's impe...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The imperial roles of British institutions
- Technical assistance and state building at the end of Empire
- Teaching what "the natives need to know": the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and training for overseas public administration
- "Education and propaganda": the Bank of England and the development of central banking in African states at the end of Empire
- Making money: the Royal Mint and British decolonization
- "Losing an Empire and winning friends": Sandhurst and British decolonization
- Conclusion.