The Break-Up of Greater Britain

Introduction: The anatomy of break-up – Stuart Ward 1 Maintaining racial boundaries: Greater Britain in the Second World War and beyond – Wendy Webster 2 Cut loose: the British in China and the aftermath of empire – Robert Bickers 3 Entangled citizens: the afterlives of empire in the Indian Citizenship Act, 1947–1955 – Kalathmika Natarajan 4 ‘How come England did not know me?’: the ‘rude awakenings’ of the Windrush era – Stuart Ward 5 Indians of Durban, South Africa and the break-up of Greater Britain – Hilary Sapire 6 The birth of 'white' republics and the demise of Greater Britain: the republican referendums in South Africa and Rhodesia – Christian D. Pedersen 7 ‘King’s men’, ‘Queen’s rebels’ and ‘last outposts’: Ulster and Rhodesia in an age of imperial retreat – Donal Lowry 8 The tale of two Commonwealths? The (British) Commonwealth of Nations, decolonisation and the break-up of Greater Britain – Andrew Dilley 9 Greater Britain and its decline: the view from Lambeth – Sarah Stockwell 10 From Pax Britannica to Pax Americana? The end of empire and the collapse of Australia’s Cold War policy – James Curran 11 Boundaries of belonging: differential fees for overseas students in Britain, c. 1967 – Jodi Burkett 12 Persistence and privilege: mass migration from Britain to the Commonwealth, 1945–2000 – Jean P. Smith 13 ‘The mouse that roared’: the Falklands and Gibraltar in Thatcher’s (Greater) Britain – Ezequiel Mercau 14 Falling Rhodes, building bridges, finding paths: decoloniality from Cape Town to Oxford, and back – Stephen Howe Index -- .