Anticolonialism in British politics : the left and the end of Empire, 1918-1964 /
This is the first full scholarly study of British anticolonialism. British anticolonialism was an offshoot of a massive global upsurge of sentiment which has dominated much of the history of this century. In this wide-ranging and important book, Stephen Howe surveys the attitudes and activities rela...
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1993.
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| Series: | Oxford historical monographs.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Left and Imperialism. i. Decolonisation: the poverty of historiography. ii. Colonial revolution, transfer of power, or transition to neo-colonialism? iii. Decolonisation, the metropole, and the 'official mind'. iv. British socialists and imperialism: contexts and intentions
- 2. Socialism and Empire Before 1939. i. Labour and Imperialism: origins and overviews. ii. The impact of Empire on the British left. iii. The Labour Party. iv. British Communists and the Empire. v. The Independent Labour Party. vi. The League Against Imperialism. vii. The Trade Unions
- 3. The War Years, 1936-1945. i. Black Jacobins and Friends of Abyssinia. ii. Warning from the West Indies. iii. Against war and imperialism. iv. Communists, Common Wealth, and Coalition. v. India and the intellectuals. vi. Labour Party and TUC: reappraisal and renewal. vii. The global context
- 4. The Labour Governments, 1945-1951. i. Labour in power. ii. Palestine and the Middle East. iii. South and South-east Asia.
- iv. The CPGB, the Labour Government, and the colonies. v. Attack from the Labour left, 1950-1
- 5. The Left Outside Parliament, 1945-1954. i. The Congress of Peoples Against Imperialism. ii. The Trotskyists and the Empire. iii. Pan-Africanism after 1945. iv. The Union of Democratic Control. v. Central Africa. vi. Kenya. vii. The Caribbean. viii. Malaya. ix. The left in the Labour Party
- 6. The Movement for Colonial Freedom, 1954-1964. i. Origins and foundation. ii. Aims and ideals. iii. Membership, personnel, and structure. iv. The MCF and the left in Parliament. v. The Area Councils
- and the Communist Party
- 7. Campaigns and Schisms, 1954-1964. i. The MCF, the Labour Party, and decolonisation. ii. The Trade Unions. iii. The Communist Party
- and the New Left. iv. Neo-colonialism. v. 1964
- from new dawn to new disappointment
- 8. Conclusions.