Beschreibung:
Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation explores the subject of Liberalism and its uses and contradictions across the late British Empire, especially in the context of imperial dissolution and subsequent state-building.
Introduction: Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation1. The Plural Society: Labour and the Commonwealth Idea 1900-19642. Imperial Citizenship or Else: Liberal Ideals and the Indian Unmaking of Empire, 1890-19193. Written Differently: A Survey of Commonwealth Constitutional History in the Age of Decolonisation4. An Acutely Embarrassing Affair: Whitehall and the Indian-South African Dispute at the United Nations (1946)5: A Liberal Ghost? The Left, Liberal Democracy and the Legacy of Harold Laski's Teaching 6. The Post-Colonial Constitutional Order of the Commonwealth Caribbean: The Endurance of the Crown and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council7. Primitive Liberals and Pirate Tribes: Black-Flag Radicalism and the Kibbo Kift8. Imperial Liberalism and Institution Building at the End of Empire in Africa