The impact of imperial power on the periphery and Britain
Key issue(s)
Metropolitan politics, international relations and the economy
Metropolitan politics, international relations and the economy
This involves a repositioning of knowledge about British history and its European and foreign relations to consider the influence of those forces upon empire.
However, it relates back as well to Key Topic 2 and the discussion over what led in the end to processes of decolonization and the ‘end’ of empire: the interaction between national politics in Britain and the colony, and wider international politics. In the case of Britain, the relative speed of decolonisation is striking after WWII.
However, it relates back as well to Key Topic 2 and the discussion over what led in the end to processes of decolonization and the ‘end’ of empire: the interaction between national politics in Britain and the colony, and wider international politics. In the case of Britain, the relative speed of decolonisation is striking after WWII.
Internet Resources
See the following for lots of links to sources:
Imperial federation
League of Nations and the concept of ‘Mandate’
See the following for lots of links to sources:
Imperial federation
- Chamberlain and the proposal for an Imperial Federation.
- 'The Common Sense of Imperial Federation,' The Spectator, 14 August 1886.
- A range of digitized contemporary texts here.
League of Nations and the concept of ‘Mandate’
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[Buddhist Ordination] MS 230268, [1827]. MS 230268 (SOAS manuscript number), SOAS Library. © SOAS University of London.
