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Article: Liquidation of Empire: the Decline of the British Empire.(Book Review)
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- Commonwealth & Comparative Politics
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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Liquidation of Empire: The Decline of the British Empire by Roy Douglas (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, pp.viii + 190, 42.50 [pounds sterling] hb).
Liquidation of Empire is a brief survey of the British Empire and its fate in the twentieth century. It attempts an explanation of why the devolution of empire occurred so quickly in the years after World War II, and utilises documents recently released under the 30-year rule. The title, Liquidation of Empire, is based on a speech in 1942 by Winston Churchill, in which he indicated to the House of Commons his opposition to such a process: ironically, as Roy Douglas points out, most of this liquidation had ...