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The impact of imperial power on the periphery and Britain

Key issue(s)
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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.

Internet Resources

See the following for lots of links to sources:
  • Britain 1816-1918.
  • Britain 1919 to the present.
 
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’
  • Colonial Development Act of 1929
  • Changed role of United States
  • The Great Depression
  • Effects of World War II

[Buddhist Ordination] MS 230268, [1827]. MS 230268 (SOAS manuscript number), SOAS Library. © SOAS University of London.
[Buddhist Ordination] MS 230268, [1827]. MS 230268 (SOAS manuscript number), SOAS Library. © SOAS University of London.
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Governance and administration
Opposition
Periphery and Britain
Impact on international relation
​​Depth studies
​British India
Palestine
Kenya

Cold War in Asia

Key Topics
Western Policies
The Korean War
Indochina
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  • Home
  • About
  • The British Empire
    • Key Topics >
      • The governance and administration of the Empire
      • Opposition to British Rule
      • The impact of imperial power on the periphery and Britain
      • The British Empire and its impact on International Relations
    • Depth Studies >
      • British India: The War of 1857 and its consequences to 1876
      • Palestine 1914-1948
      • Nationalism in Kenya 1945 - 1965
  • Cold War in Asia
    • Western Policies in Post War Asia
    • The Korean War
    • Indochina
    • Vietnam and Cambodia
  • Contact