Commonwealth history in the twenty-first century /
Saul Dubow, Richard Drayton, editors.
- Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series .
- Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series. .
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Introduction : the Commonwealth in the twenty-first century / The League of Nations and the 'Third British Empire', 1919-40 / Commonwealth history from below? : Caribbean national, federal and pan-African renegotiations of the empire project, c. 1880-1950 / Commonwealth constitution-maker : the life of Yash Ghai / 'The unbridgeable gulf" : responsible self-government and Aboriginal title in Southern Rhodesia and the Commonwealth / Commonwealth communities : immigration and racial thinking in twentieth century Britain / Between insignificance and importance : the Commonwealth headship in contemporary history / Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian republicanism, and the Commonwealth / South African Indians, monarchy and the new Commonwealth : transnational conversations and perspectives, 1946-1948 / 'Cuckoo in the Commonwealth Nest' : the Irish impact and the Commonwealth legacy for Ireland / The Commonwealth and ppartheid / Racial legacies : South African apartheid and the old Commonwealth / A bridge to better relations between London and Vichy : Jan Smuts, South Africa, and Commonwealth diplomacy in the Second World War / Globalising Suez : Commonwealth diplomacy and the War of Algerian Independence (1955-1957) / Whose Commonwealth? Negotiating Commonwealth Day in the 1950s and 1960s / Banking on a Commonwealth future / Saul Dubow and Richard Drayton -- David Thackeray -- Richard Drayton -- Coel Kirby -- Edward Cavanagh -- Saima Nasar -- Harshan Kumarasingham -- Sunil Purushotham -- Hilary Sapire -- Donal Lowry -- Thula Simpson -- Harriet Aldrich -- Luc-André Brunet -- Mélanie Torrent -- Anna Bocking-Welch -- Sarah Stockwell.
This edited collection draws together new historical writing on the Commonwealth. It features the work of younger scholars, as well as established academics, and highlights themes such as law and sovereignty, republicanism and the monarchy, French engagement with the Commonwealth, the anti-apartheid struggle, race and immigration, memory and commemoration, and banking. The volume focusses less on the Commonwealth as an institution than on the relevance and meaning of the Commonwealth to its member countries and peoples. By adopting oblique, de-centred, approaches to Commonwealth history, unusual or overlooked connections are brought to the fore while old problems are looked at from fresh vantage points - be this turning points like the relationship between 'old and `new Commonwealth members from 1949, or the distinctive roles of major figures like Jawaharlal Nehru or Jan Smuts. The volume thereby aims to refresh interest in Commonwealth history as a field of comparative international history.