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Afterlife of Empire

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ISBN-10: 1938169042

ISBN-13: 9781938169045

Edition: N/A

Authors: Jordanna Bailkin

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The Afterlife of Empireinvestigates how decolonization transformed British society in the 1950s and 1960s. Although usually charted through its diplomatic details, the collapse of the British empire was also a deeply personal process that altered everyday life, restructuring routines, individual relationships, and social interactions.The book traces a set of diverse yet interrelated and richly compelling stories: West Indian migrants repatriated for mental illness, young Britons volunteering in the former colonies, overseas students seeking higher education, polygamous husbands and wives facing invalidation of their marriages, West African children raised by white, working-class British…    
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Book details

List price: $19.95
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/6/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 326
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English