Elizabeth Buettner

Europe after Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

A pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 564
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 959g
• ISBN-13: 9780521113861
• ISBN-10: 0521113865
• Artikelnr.: 44254330

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Buettner joined the University of Amsterdam as Professor of Modern History in 2014, prior to which she taught at the University of York. She received her BA from Barnard College of Columbia University and her MA and PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 2012-2013, she held a Senior Research Fellowship at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies in Germany in conjunction with a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, and in 2006 she was selected to participate in the International Research Seminar on Decolonization sponsored by the National History Center, the Mellon Foundation, and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Her publications include Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India (2004), which was awarded the Women's History Network Book Prize and led to her being shortlisted for the Young Academic Author of the Year award by the Times Higher Education Supplement in 2005. She has written articles in the Journal of Modern History, the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, History and Memory, the Scottish Historical Review (where her piece won the Royal Historical Society's David Berry Prize), Annales de Démographie Historique, Ab Imperio, and Food and History. Contributions to edited collections include the chapter 'Ethnicity' in A Concise Companion to History, edited by Ulinka Rublack (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Decolonization for Colonizers: Europe's Transition to
the Postcolonial Era: 1. Myths of continuity and European exceptionalism:
Britain, decolonization, and the Commonwealth family ideal; 2. Occupation,
resistance, and liberation: the road to Dutch decolonization; 3. Soldiering
on in the shadow of war: decolonizing la plus grande France; 4. Long live
the king?: Belgium, the monarchy, and the Congo between the Second World
War and the decolonization years; 5. From Rose-Coloured Map to Carnation
Revolution: Portugal's overseas amputations; Part II. Migrations and
Multiculturalisms in Postcolonial Europe; 6. Ending empires, coming home:
the ghost worlds of European colonial repatriates; 7. Ethnic minority
immigration from empires lost; 8. Reconfiguring nations: identities,
belonging, and multiculturalism in the wake of postcolonial migration; Part
III. Memories, Legacies, and Further Directions: 9. Remembering and
forgetting empires; Epilogue: thoughts toward new histories of contemporary
Europe; Further reading; Index.