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Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo is a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. His research interests focus on comparative histories of imperialism and colonialism. He recently published A diplomacia do império and edited O império colonial em questão (2012), co-edited Portugal e o fim do colonialismo (2014) and published The ’Civilising Mission’ of Portuguese Colonialism, 1870-1930 (2015).
António Costa Pinto is a Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. His research interests include authoritarianism, political elites, democratization and decolonization. He published recently (co-editor), Rethinking Fascism and Dictatorship in Europe (2014).
Table of contents :
Introduction : The Ends of Empire : Chronologies, Historiographies, and Trajectories ; Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and António Costa Pinto
PART I : COMPETING DEVELOPMENTS : THE IDIOMS OF REFORM AND RESISTANCE
1. Development, Modernization, and the Social Sciences in the Era of Decolonization : The Examples of British and French Africa ; Frederick Cooper
2. A Modernizing Empire ? Politics, Culture and Economy in Portuguese Late Colonialism ; Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and António Costa Pinto
3. Commanders With or Without Machine-Guns : Robert Delavignette and the Future of the French-African ’Imperial Nation-State’, 1956-58 ; Martin Shipway
PART II : COMPARING ENDGAMES : THE MODI OPERANDI OF DECOLONIZATION
4. Imperial Endings and Small States : Disorderly Decolonization for Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal ; Crawford Young
5. British, French and Portuguese Decolonization Compared : Political Culture and Strategic Options in Multilateral Consultations ; Bruno Cardoso Reis
6. Exporting Britishness : Decolonisation in Africa, the British State and its Clients ; Sarah Stockwell
7. Acceptable Levels ? The Use and Threat of Violence in the Decolonization of British Central Africa, 1953-1965 ; Philip Murphy
PART III : CONFRONTING INTERNATIONALS : THE (GEO)POLITICS OF DECOLONIZATION
8. Inside the Parliament of Man : Decolonization, Apartheid, and the Remaking of the United Nations, 1945-1970 ; Ryan Irwin
9. Cold War and Decolonisation in the Congo : Lumumba and the Neo-colonial Transfer of Power 1960 ; John Kent
10. The International Dimension of Portuguese Colonial Crisis, 1961-1968 ; Luís Nuno Rodrigues
Last Days of Empire ; John Darwin
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