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by Wm Roger Louis (Contributor, Editor), Judith Brown (Editor) "These words-written as an ode for the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902 to accompany Elgar's brilliantly rousing must-became the transcendent anthem of Empire..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 800 pages
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford (21 Oct 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0198205643
  • ISBN-13: 978-0198205647
  • Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 16.3 x 4.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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David Gilmour, FT Weekend 19/2/00
"impressive ... the overall achievement is undeniably impressive. Under the magisterial guidance of Louis ... a vast array of historians has produced a solid monument of contemporary scholarship."

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Impressive ... a neat balance of thematic and area-specific chapters, all of which are exceptionally well written ... will serve as a vital work of reference for any library concerned with the history of the empire. (Nicholas J. White, The Economic Hist. Rev., Vol.LIII, No.4, Nov.2000. )

impressive ... the overall achievement is undeniably impressive. Under the magisterial guidance of Louis ... a vast array of historians has produced a solid monument of contemporary scholarship. (David Gilmour, FT Weekend 19/2/00 )

this chapter [The Nineteenth Century] is infinitely more enlightening then anything to be found in the Cambridge Volumes. (Bernard Porter, TLS )

These final three volumes should be compulsory reading for anyone with an interest in the subject (Bernard Porter, TLS )

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5.0 out of 5 stars Cutting and Running, 18 Oct 2007
This review is from: The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume IV: The Twentieth Century: Twentieth Century Vol 4 (Paperback)
The story of the dismantlement of the Empire is usually told piece-meal and selectively, focussing on the more dramatic areas: Ireland, India, Palestine, Suez. But it is a subject that benefits from being treated as a whole, because there is a certain unity to it, as this excellent collection (for me, the best of the series) points out.

It was clear to successive British governments after World War 1 and its aftermaths in Ireland and Amritsar that there were neither the funds available, nor the stomach to police any part of the Empire in the face of serious civil disobedience, so that policy between the wars was to try to paper over such uncomfortable facts. The failure to construct the planned Singapore naval base and create a Pacific fleet meant that such inadequacies were made evident when Japan launched its assaults.

The task after 1945 therefore was to try to portray the withdrawal from Empire as a planned process. Mostly there weren't any plans, and even those that were made - for federations in the Caribbean, East Africa and Rhodesia and Nyasaland for intance - came to nothing.

There is a success story. Given its limited objectives, the Commonwealth functions extremely well, with countries with no connection to the Empire queuing for admission. But the current structure of the Commonwealth wasn't planned either. Fitting really.
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