PrefaceProloguePART I: Oceania Overview1: 'Imperialism, as such, is a newly coined word': Empire and Oceania2: 'The task of "Empire un-building" is a difficult one': Decolonization3: 'Britain's withdrawal east of Suez is also a withdrawal west of Panama': End of Empire in the Pacific: when, why, and how?PART II: Holding On4: 'A dramatic and liberal gesture': Attlee's Secret Smaller Territories Enquiry, 1949-515: 'Limbo', 'mezzanine status' or 'independence minus': Self-government within the Commonwealth in the 1950s6: 'Something of a profit and loss account': Macmillan's Audit of Empire, 1957-59PART III: Letting Go7: 'The Cold War Front is advancing upon Oceania': Pressures at the United Nations, 1960-618: 'To Complete the process of decolonization as soon as possible': Responses to the UN Declaration on Colonialism, 1962-659: 'Coming to the most difficult period of decolonization': The Lady Margaret Hall Conference, 196510: 'A line would have to be drawn': The paradox of the expanding United Nations, 1965-70PART IV: Winding Up11: 'For us the British Empire is past history': Towards a retreat from 'Never-land': Tonga and Fiji, 197012: 'Independence and self-government have the same value': Self-determination for Niue, 1970-7413: 'It is more blessed to go than be pushed': The 1973 Programme Analysis and Review14: 'To encourage Australia and New Zealand to take a larger share': The Anzac role in decolonization15: 'Liquidating colonial arrangements with as much speed as possible': Accelerated decolonization: (1) Solomon Islands16: 'We cannot now apply the brakes': Accelerated decolonization: (2) Gilbert and Ellice Islands17: 'The most difficult pre-independence conference we have had for a Pacific territory': Accelerated decolonization: (3) Kiribati and Banaba18: 'The dying art of decolonization is difficult to pursue in a Condominium': Accelerated decolonization: (4) New HebridesEpilogueBibliography
W. David McIntyre was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, the
University of Washington, Seattle, and the School of Oriental and
African Studies, University of London. After teaching for the
Universities of Maryland, British Columbia, and Nottingham, he
became Professor of History at the University of Canterbury New
Zealand between 1966 and 1997. As Honorary Special Correspondent of
The New Zealand International Review he reported on Commonwealth
Heads of
Government Meetings from 1987 to 2011.
McIntyres work draws larger historiographical implications that
locate the origins of the decolonization process in the nineteenth
century. When one adds McIntyres meticulous research to these
observations, one can only conclude that his work deserves the full
attention of scholars and interested readers concerned with the
last stages of the British Empire.
*Rainer F. Buschmann, Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies
Vol4.2*
Professor McIntyre's book ... has drawn on new sources, including
the Foreign and Commonwealth Office files, to fill a gap in our
understanding of the recent history of the Pacific.
*Gerald Hensley, New Zealand International Review*
McIntyre provides eminently lucid accounts of each country's
distinct road to independence ... In sum, the book excels in
providing a broader context for the factors that served to propel
the unforeseen decolonization of Britain's Pacific island
dependencies. It is an exemplary contribution to the Oxford series
and to the overall literature on decolonization
*Philip Chrimes, International Affairs*
a singular contribution to our understanding of the last days of
the British Empire ... David McIntyre has added an important,
much-needed sentence to a larger conversation about one significant
aspect of modern Pacific Islands' history. He has done so with
authority and elegant precision
*Brij Lal, Australian Historical Studies*
With a remarkable level of detail driven by in-depth archival
research, McIntyre creates what is surely the definitive story of
the end of the British Empire in the Pacific, arguing that above
all else it was United Nations anticolonialism and the British
government's drive to be an Atlantic and European power ... rather
than a colonial power that provided the nails for the coffin
*Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon, H-Diplo*
David McIntyre in Winding up the British Empire in the Pacific
Islands takes up the challenge of examining this concluding phase
of British decolonisation. This is a first rate book. McIntyre
skilfully tells the story and provides fascinating explanations for
the timing and methods of the British withdrawal from the
region
*Christopher Watters, Journal of Pacific History*
This book is a fine work of scholarship. It fills a gap in the
history of how the British Empire was wound up in the Pacific
outposts ... this is a clear, interesting and authoritative study
but, from whatever starting point the reader is coming, they will
find the book a pleasure to read
*David Murray, The Overseas Pensioner*
The account persuasively presented is that while British
governments of all colours may have resented external demands for
decolonisation, they were not at all seeking to hang on to 'assets'
as long as possible, for few could be discerned. For policymakers
in London (and indeed in Australia and New Zealand, whose
governments also had Pacific island responsibilities, which this
book also addresses) the problem became how to decolonise in the
region not whether to decolonise
*Stephen Constantine, The Round Table*
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