British civic society at the end of empire
Decolonisation, globalisation, and international responsibility
This book is about the impact of decolonisation on British civic society in the 1960s. It shows how participants in middle class associational life developed optimistic visions for a post-imperial global role. Through the pursuit of international friendship, through educational efforts to know and understand the world, and through the provision of assistance to those in need, the British public imagined themselves as important actors on a global stage. As this book shows, the imperial past remained an important repository of skill, experience, and expertise in the 1960s, one that was called upon by a wide range of associations to justify thei…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-3129-4
- EAN: 9781526131294
- Produktnummer: 32341528
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 487 KB
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Anna Bocking-Welch is Lecturer in British and Imperial History at the University of Liverpool
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