Decolonisation
Anthony Kirk-Greene looks at the remarkably rapid 'end of empire' of Britain in Africa, and argues that perspective and objectivity can now yield a useful stocktaking. |
Carl Peter Watts estimates the importance of the different reasons for British withdrawal. Published in History Review, Issue: 71, 2011
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Goa fell to Indian troops on December 19th 1961. |
Andrew Boxer demonstrates the ways in which external events affected the struggles of African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s. |
San Martín and his forces liberated Peru and proclaimed its independence from Spain on July 28th, 1821. Richard Cavendish charts the life of one of the leading figures of the South American wars of independence. Published in
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What role did Simon Bolivar play in the history of Venezuela's declaration of independence from Spain? Here John Lynch argues that the history of Spanish American independence is incomprehensible without him. Published in Volume: 33 Issue: 7, 1983
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The intriguing death of an Indian holy man in 1985 suggested that he was none other than Subhas Chandra Bose, the revolutionary and nationalist who, it is officially claimed, died in an air crash in 1945. The truth, however, is harder to find, as Hugh Purcell discovers. Published in History Today, Volume: 60 Issue: 11
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Football became a potent expression of Algeria’s struggle for independence, never more so than during the dramatic events that preceded the 1958 World Cup, as Martin Evans explains. |
In 1959 Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba after a masterly campaign of guerrilla warfare. Drawing on this success, Castro and his followers, including Che Guevara, sought to spread their revolution, as Clive Foss explains. |
A century ago, the British authorities in India passed a series of reforms that they hoped would appease the subcontinent’s increasingly confident political movements. But, writes Denis Judd, it was too little, too late. Published in History Today, Volume: 59 Issue: 11
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As the Roman Empire declined its leaders became interested more in personal survival than good governance. Sound familiar? Adrian Goldsworthy draws comparisons with current crises. Published in History Today, Volume: 59 Issue: 5
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The independent Federation of Malaya came into being on August 31st, 1957. |
This West African state was a focus of the slave trade for centuries, and the first African colony to win independence, exactly fifty years ago. Graham Gendall Norton finds lots of history to explore. |
Jonathan Colman provides an overview of modern British Imperial History, introducing the key events and issues that students need to understand. |
Anthony Fletcher uses the papers of his artistic great-aunt, who, as a young nationalist, wrote an eyewitness account of the Easter Rising ninety years ago this month, to explore her youthful patriotism and vigorous activism. |
The organisation which would become the poltical arm of the Irish Republican Army was founded as a nationalist pressure group on November 28th, 1905. |
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