Synopses & Reviews
In the period from the start of World War I until after the end of World War II, Britain declined dramatically as an imperial power. In 1914 she controlled more of the globe than any other nation, but by 1951 she had become a second class power, granting her colonies independence and turning to the USA for the finance needed to survive. In this incisive and detailed account, John Callaghan argues that at the root of this decline lay the entrenched belief in Britain's ruling elites of the necessity of maintaining an Empire, whatever the cost in economic terms.
Synopsis
This book examines the new framework of ideas (since 1989) which will inform our understanding on how development in the old Third World should be understood
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-136) and index.
About the Author
John Callaghan is Professor of Politics at the University of Wolverhampton and is the author of Rajani Palme Dutt (1993), Socialism in Britain Since 1884 (1990) and British Trotskyism (1984).
John Callaghan's last book, Rajani Palme Dutt, was described as '...a remarkable political biography' ny John Tordoe of the Independent