Break-Up of Greater Britain

Christian D. Pedersen is Associate Professor in British Imperial History at the University of Southern DenmarkStuart Ward is Professor at the Saxo Institute for History, Archaeology, Ethnology and Classics at Copenhagen University

• Introduction: The anatomy of break-up – Stuart Ward1 Maintaining racial boundaries: Greater Britain in the Second World War and beyond – Wendy Webster2 Cut loose: the British in China and the aftermath of empire – Robert Bickers3 Entangled citizens: the afterlives of empire in the Indian Citizenship Act, 1947–1955 – Kalathmika Natarajan4 ‘How come England did not know me?’: the ‘rude awakenings’ of the Windrush era – Stuart Ward5 Indians of Durban, South Africa and the break-up of Greater Britain – Hilary Sapire6 The birth of 'white' republics and the demise of Greater Britain: the republican referendums in South Africa and Rhodesia – Christian D. Pedersen7 ‘King’s men’, ‘Queen’s rebels’ and ‘last outposts’: Ulster and Rhodesia in an age of imperial retreat – Donal Lowry8 The tale of two Commonwealths? The (British) Commonwealth of Nations, decolonisation and the break-up of Greater Britain – Andrew Dilley9 Greater Britain and its decline: the view from Lambeth – Sarah Stockwell10 From Pax Britannica to Pax Americana? The end of empire and the collapse of Australia’s Cold War policy – James Curran11 Boundaries of belonging: differential fees for overseas students in Britain, c. 1967 – Jodi Burkett12 Persistence and privilege: mass migration from Britain to the Commonwealth, 1945–2000 – Jean P. Smith13 ‘The mouse that roared’: the Falklands and Gibraltar in Thatcher’s (Greater) Britain – Ezequiel Mercau14 Falling Rhodes, building bridges, finding paths: decoloniality from Cape Town to Oxford, and back – Stephen HoweIndex

‘The break-up of Greater Britain draws together a wide range of contributions from some of the leading scholars of empire and Britishness.’ Simon Potter, Journal of Contemporary History