British culture and the end of empire

(Studies in imperialism) Summary: The essays in this volume reflect on the fall of the British Empire, and its resonance in British popular culture. The demise of the Empire during the three decades following WWII transformed Britain's relationships with the wider world, and within Britain itself. The contributors argue that the social and cultural impact of decolinization had as significant an effect on the imperial centre as on the colonial periphery

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The persistence of empire in metropolitan culture / John M. MacKenzie -- Empire loyalists and 'commonwealth men': the round table and the end of empire / Alex May -- Coronation Everest: the empire and commonwealth in the 'second Elizabethan age' / Peter H. Hansen -- Look back at empire: British theatre and imperial decline / Dan Rebellato -- 'No nation could be broker': the satire boom and the demise of Britain's world role / Stuart Ward -- The imperial game in crisis: English cricket and decolonisation / Mike Cronin and Richard Holt -- Imperial heroes for a post-imperial age: films and the end of empire / Jeffrey Richards -- Imperial legacies, new frontiers: children's popular literature and the demise of empire / Kathryn Castle -- Wandering in the wake of empire: British travel and tourism in the post-imperial world / Hsu-Ming Teo -- Communities of Britishness: migration in the last gasp of empire / Kathleen Paul -- South Asians in post-imperial Britain: decolonisation and imperial legacy / Shompa Lahiri -- India, inc.? Nostalgia, memory and the empire of things / Antoinette Burton

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