Decolonising Europe?: Popular Responses to the End of Empire

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Acronyms
Making sense of the end of empire: Fluxes and flows in Decolonising Europe?
	Genealogies and theories of decolonisation
	Decolonisation studies
	Meaning
	Media
	Material culture
	Migration
	Memory
	The future of decolonisation past
	Notes
	References
Meaning: Making sense of decolonisation
	Chapter 1 Magna Carta and the end of empire
		The late-imperial Magna Carta
		From interwar nationalisation to wartime mobilisation
		Cold War freedom and the ‘islanding’ of Magna Carta37
		Coda
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 2 The end of empire and the four nations
		Political background
		The referenda
		Cultures of empire and decolonisation
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 3 Reverberations of decolonisation: British approaches to governance in post-colonial Africa and the rise of the ‘strong men’
		The British Empire as a bringer of democracy to Africa
		Metropolitan reactions to the rise of the ‘strong men’
		Fleet Street weighs in
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Media: Words and images of the end of empire
	Chapter 4 The semantics of decolonisation: The public debate on the New Guinea Question in the Netherlands, 1950–62
		Policymaking and public debate on West New Guinea
		Substantial or semantic? Bot’s West New Guinea policy, 1960–61
		‘Puppets’ or ‘pioneers’? Papuans in the Dutch press
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 5 Decolonisation and the press: A path to pluralism in Franco’s Spain, ca. 1950–75
		Decolonising Africanismo
		International coverage
		Post-colonialism and the transition to democracy
		Notes
		References
Memory: Recalling empire in post-imperial worlds
	Chapter 6 Afterlives of colonialism in the everyday: Street names and the (un)making of imperial debris
		Street names as nodes of colonial memory
		Hermann von Wissmann’s imperial career
		Forgotten judgement on Wissmann’s career
		Wissman’s ‘heroism’ and contemporary mechanisms of myth-making
		Colonial revisionism in the interwar years
		Fragments and traces in the German post-colonial landscape
		A controversial hero: J. P. Coen and the Dutch colonial past
		Coen’s national memory
		Local memory: ‘Working through’ street names
		The resilience of colonial street names
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 7 Passing the point of no return: Italy’s regretted end of empire and the Mogadishu massacre of 1948
		Africa and the reconstitution of the Italian nation
		Debating the return of the colonies
		Decolonisation strikes back: The Mogadishu massacre of January 1948
		Italy: An accidental and reluctant pioneer of decolonisation
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 8 Oases of imperial nostalgia: British and French desert memories after empire1
		The blind spot of empty spaces? French ‘desert conquests’ versus British ‘desert wars’
		Managing the colonial hangover: Deserts retreat to the metropoles
		Post-colonial imaginaries: France’s unique ‘desert industry’
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 9 Questioning Portugal’s social cohesion and preparing post-imperial memory: Returned settlers (retornados) and Portuguese society, 1975–80
		Retornado images and complaints between empire’s end and the normalisation of Portugal’s political system
		Integration and stereotypes: The returnees and the mainstream press
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Material culture: Tactile rémanences
	Chapter 10 Ephemera and the dynamics of colonial memory
		Ephemeral realms of memory
		Locating the ephemeral at the end of empire
		Board games and the end of the empire
		From games to toys to other ephemera: Negotiating the end of empire
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 11 Domestic museums of decolonisation?: Objects, colonial officials, and the afterlives of empire in Britain
		Objects, homes, and decolonisation
		Empire as adventure: The explorer
		Empire on the margins: The collector
		Beyond empire: The educator
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 12 Decongolising Europe? African art and post-colony Belgium1
		African artwork and Belgium before 1960
		Curators, collectors, dealers, and missionaries
		Mobilised collections
		Restitution
		Congolese and Belgian artists at work
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Momentum: Decolonisation and its aftermath
	Afterword: Diverging experiences of decolonisation
		Notes
		References
Index