British Documents on the End of Empire: East of Suez and the Commonwealth 1964-1971

3 Volume set

Author:

S R Ashton, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, & Wm Roger Louis, University of Texas

Publisher:

TSO (The Stationery Office)

This is the final general volume in this well-established series. It covers the period from the election of a Labour government in 1964 to the symbolic recall of British troops East of Suez in 1971.

Key features:

• This volume is comprised of three separate parts (books), with the introduction to all three in Part 1

• The contents are entirely based on hitherto unpublished official documents

• Part I includes chapters on the defence reviews of the 1960s, Britain's scrambled withdrawal from Aden and South Arabia in 1967, British policy in South-East Asia (Singapore's secession from Malaysia, Confrontation and Vietnam), and Britain's withdrawal from the Persian Gulf

• Part II presents material on the creation of the Commonwealth Office (1966) and the FCO (1968), as well as a detailed analysis of Britain's Rhodesia policy, a 1967 Whitehall assessment of the value of the Commonwealth to Britain, records of Harold Wilson's conversations with President de Gaulle about Britain's second application to join the EEC, and a novel approach to future planning based on Britain's post-East of Suez priorities.

• Part III includes a survey of the remaining dependent territories with new material on the Falkland Islands and Hong Kong, extensive assessments of Britain's policy in post-colonial Africa and relations with South Africa, and an economics chapter revealing a shift towards self-interest in the government's policy towards overseas aid.

Extent	Various	ISBN	9780112905851
Size	186 x 123mm	Price	£390.00
Format	Hardback (Papercased)	Published	26 Nov 2004
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