The End of Empires and a World Remade

A Global History of Decolonization

Professor Martin Thomas

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English

Princeton University Press
19 March 2024

General & world history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism

Empires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. With the collapse of empire came a fundamental reorganisation of our world. Decolonisation unfolded across territories as well as within them. Its struggles became internationalised and transnational, as much global campaigns of moral disarmament against colonial injustice as local contests of arms. In this expansive history, Martin Thomas tells the story of decolonisation and its intrinsic link to globalisation. He traces the connections between these two transformative processes: the end of formal empire and the acceleration of global integration, market reorganisation, cultural exchange, and migration.

The End of Empires and a World Remade shows how profoundly decolonisation shaped the process of globalisation in the wake of empire collapse. In the second half of the twentieth century, decolonisation catalysed new international coalitions; it triggered partitions and wars; and it reshaped North-South dynamics. Globalisation promised the decolonised greater access to essential resources, to wider networks of influence, and to worldwide audiences, but its neoliberal variant has reinforced economic inequalities and imperial forms of political and cultural influences. In surveying these two codependent histories across the world, from Latin America to Asia, Thomas explains why the deck was so heavily stacked against newly independent nations.

Decolonisation stands alongside the great world wars as the most transformative event of twentieth-century history. In The End of Empires and a World Remade, Thomas offers a masterful analysis of the greatest process of state-making (and empire-unmaking) in modern history.

By: Professor Martin Thomas
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780691190921
ISBN 10: 0691190925
Pages: 672
Publication Date: 19 March 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Martin Thomas is professor of imperial history and director of the Centre for Histories of Violence and Conflict at the University of Exeter. A fellow of the Leverhulme Trust and the Independent Social Research Foundation, he is the author of Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 19181940; Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and the Roads from Empire; and other books.

Reviews for The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization

""A substantial contribution to the literature of imperialism and colonialism."" * Kirkus Reviews * ""Expansive."" * Choice Reviews * ""A rich book.""---Eva-Maria Muschik, H-Diplo ""A magisterial study. . .the definitive history of decolonisation of European empires.""---David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer ""Impressive. . . . This is an important book.""---Mariano Aguirre Ernst, International Affairs