Bøger af Martin Shipway

The collection of essays in this volume offers an overview of scholarly approaches to the ways in which diverse actors, representing the colonised or the colonising nations, or indeed the international community, reacted to colonialism during the lifetime of the modern colonial empires or in their aftermath. The coverage is broad in terms of geogra

Decolonization and its Impact is a ground-breaking comparative study of decolonization from before the Second World War to the early 1960s.

How did France become embroiled in Vietnam, in the first long wars of decolonization? Based on French archival sources, the author assesses the policy that emerged from the 1944 Brazzaville conference; and the doomed attempt to apply that policy in Indo-China.