Description
Book SynopsisStudying the demise of the British Empire after World War II from a cultural perspective rather than a political or economic one, this text argues that the social and cultural impact of decolonisation had as significant an effect on the imperial centre as on the colonial periphery.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
General editor's introduction
Introduction
1. The persistence of empire in metropolitan culture - John M. Mackenzie
2. Empire loyalists and 'Commonwealth men': The round table and the end of empire - Alex May
3. Coronation Everest: empire and commonwealth in the 'second Elizabethan age' - Peter H. Hansen
4. Look back at empire: British theatre and imperial decline - Dan Rebellato
5. 'No nation could be broker': The satire boom and the demise of Britain's world role - Stuart Ward
6. The imperial game in crisis: English cricket and decolonisation - Mike Cronin and Richard Holt
7. Imperial heroes for a post-imperial age: Films and the end of empire - Jeffrey Richards
8. Imperial legacies, new frontiers: Children's popular literature and the demise of empire - Cathryn Castle
9. Wandering in the wake of empire: British travel and tourism in the post-imperial world - Hsu-Ming Teo
10. Communities of Britishness: Migration in the last gasp of empire - Kathleen Paul
11. South Asians in post-imperial Britain: Decolonisation and the imperial legacy - Shompa Lahiri
12. India, Inc.?: Nostalgia, memory and the empire of things - Antoinette Burton
Notes on contributors
