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British culture and the end of empire

Book information

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9781526119629
DOI
10.7765/9781526119629
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7199615 bytes)
Series
Studies in Imperialism; 42
Pages
256\254
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-11-16 18:35:55

Description

This book is the first major attempt to examine the cultural manifestations of the demise of imperialism as a social and political ideology in post-war Britain. Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested, the fall of the British Empire came as a profound shock to the British national imagination, and resonated widely in British popular culture. The sheer range of subjects discussed, from the satire boom of the 1960s to the worlds of sport and the arts, demonstrates how profoundly decolonisation was absorbed into the popular consciousness. Offers an extremely novel and provocative interpretation of post-war British cultural history, and opens up a whole new field of enquiry in the history of decolonisation.

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