Recounts the end of British colonialism and the political events leading to the independence of India, Palestine, Malaya, Iran, Egypt, Aden, Cyprus, Gold Coast,

Available in paperback for the first time, this first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of no

The European Convention on Human Rights of 1950 established the most effective international system of human rights protection ever created. This is the first b

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.