Table of Contents

Preface Maps Decolonisation War and Empire, 1939-45 The Crisis of Empire, 1945-48 World Power or Imperial Decline? Nationalism and Empire in the 1950s Winds of Change Winding Up Conclusion Notes and References Select Bibliography Index.

About the Author

JOHN DARWIN was formerly Lecturer in History at the University of Reading and is now Beit Lectuer in the History of the British Commonwealth and Fellow od Nuffield College, Oxford. He is the author of Britain, Egypt and the Middle East (1981).