The Ends of Empire

The Last Colonies Revisited

John Connell, Robert Aldrich (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

524 Seiten

2020 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-15-5904-4 (ISBN)

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This book offers a fresh analysis of constitutional, economic, demographic and cultural developments in the overseas territories of Britain, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. Ranging from Greenland to Gibraltar, the Falklands to the Faroes, and encompassing islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, and the Caribbean, these territories command attention because of their unique status, and for the ways that they occasionally become flashpoints for rival international claims, dubious financial activities, illegal migration and clashes between metropolitan and local mores. Connell and Aldrich argue that a negotiated dependency brings greater benefits to these territories than might independence.

John Connell is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sydney. He has published widely on development and migration in the Pacific region. Robert Aldrich is Professor of European History at the University of Sydney. His recent books include Banished Potentates: Dethroning and exiling indigenous monarchs under British and French colonial rule, 1815-1955.

Chapter 1 A Decolonised World?.- Chapter 2 Constitutions: The Constancy of Change.- Chapter 3 Identity, Culture and Politics.- Chapter 4 New Caledonia: The Infinite Pause?.- Chapter 5 Economics: Niche Markets and Global Contexts.- Chapter 6 Migration: Holding on to Home?.- Chapter 7 Geopolitics: The Local and the Global.- Chapter 8 Anomalies on the Map.- Chapter 9 Plus ça change? From Last Colonies to Overseas Territories.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.09.2020
Zusatzinfo	5 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 524 p. 5 illus.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	981-15-5904-X / 981155904X
ISBN-13	978-981-15-5904-4 / 9789811559044
Zustand	Neuware