Examines the relationship between the British government, the Palace, and the modern Commonwealth since 1945 and argues that the monarchy's relationship with the Commonwealth, which was initially promoted by the UK as a means of strengthening imperial ties, increasingly became an impediment to British foreign policy.
Examines the relationship between the British government, the Palace, and the modern Commonwealth since 1945 and argues that the monarchy's relationship with the Commonwealth, which was initially promoted by the UK as a means of strengthening imperial ties, increasingly became an impediment to British foreign policy.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Philip Murphy is Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Professor of British and Commonwealth History at the University of London. He graduated with a doctorate from the University of Oxford and taught at the Universities of Keele and Reading before taking up his current post. He has published extensively on twentieth century British and imperial history and the history of the British intelligence community. He is the author of Party Politics and Decolonization: The Conservative Party and British Colonial Policy in Tropical Africa 1951-1964 (1995) and Alan Lennox-Boyd: A Biography (1999), and the editor of British Documents on the End of Empire: Central Africa (2005). He is also co-editor of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.
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* Preface and Acknowledgements * 1: The Holy Family: an introduction * 2: 'The Pivot of Empire': Monarchy and the Commonwealth, 1918-1945 * 3: 'A Common Act of Will': The Making of the New Commonwealth, 1945-1952 * 4: 'A Personal and Living Bond': Accession, Coronation, and Commonwealth Tour, 1952-1954 * 5: Winds of Change and the Royal Family * 6: 'A poor sort of courtesy to Her Majesty': Republics, Realms and Rebels, 1960-1970 * 7: 'A Fragile Flower': Britain and the Headship of the Commonwealth * 8: 'A Royal Duty': Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings in the 1970s * 9: 'De-Dominionisation' in the 1970s * 10: 'On Her Own': The Queen and the Commonwealth in the 1980s * 11: The Fall and Rise of the Royal Commonwealth * Bibliography
* Preface and Acknowledgements * 1: The Holy Family: an introduction * 2: 'The Pivot of Empire': Monarchy and the Commonwealth, 1918-1945 * 3: 'A Common Act of Will': The Making of the New Commonwealth, 1945-1952 * 4: 'A Personal and Living Bond': Accession, Coronation, and Commonwealth Tour, 1952-1954 * 5: Winds of Change and the Royal Family * 6: 'A poor sort of courtesy to Her Majesty': Republics, Realms and Rebels, 1960-1970 * 7: 'A Fragile Flower': Britain and the Headship of the Commonwealth * 8: 'A Royal Duty': Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings in the 1970s * 9: 'De-Dominionisation' in the 1970s * 10: 'On Her Own': The Queen and the Commonwealth in the 1980s * 11: The Fall and Rise of the Royal Commonwealth * Bibliography
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