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Subject(s)

• Asia—Foreign relations—Great Britain [Browse]
• Great Britain—Foreign relations—Asia [Browse]
• Great Britain—Foreign relations—1945- [Browse]
• Great Britain—Colonies—History [Browse]
• Decolonization [Browse]

Series

Contemporary history in context series. [More in this series]

Notes

Series statement taken from jacket.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-223) and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction: Perspectives on the Withdrawal from World Power
• 2. Decline and the Politics of Retrenchment
• 3. The Return to Normalcy: Postwar British Strategy
• 4. Holding Course: The Labour Government of 1945-51 and the Struggle over Strategy
• 5. Reappraisal: The Suez Crisis and its Aftermath, 1957-60
• 6. Setting the Stage: Longer-Term Implications of Suez
• 7. Relinquishing World Power: Britain's Financial Crises of 1966-7
• 8. Conclusions: Politics, History, and the East of Suez Decision.

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ISBN

0312214367 (cloth)

LCCN

98004957

OCLC

38258148

RCP

C - S

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