The British Empire in the 1950s: Retreat or Revival?

Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction; M.Lynn Was There a Fourth British Empire; J.Darwin Keeping Change within Bounds: A Whitehall Reassessment; S.R.Ashton 'Government by Blackmail': The Origins of the Central African Federation Reconsidered; P.Murphy African Prospects: Mining the Empire for Britain in the 1950s; S.Stockwell Decolonisation in the 1950s: The Version According to British Business; N.J.White Things Fall Apart: The Erosion of Local Government, Local Justice and Civil Rights in Ghana, 1955-60; R.Rathbone 'We Cannot let the North Down': British Policy and Nigeria in the 1950s; M.Lynn Anglo-American Revival and Empire During the Macmillan Years, 1957-63; N.J.Ashton Public Enemy Number One: The British Empire in the Dock at the United Nations, 1957-1971; R.Louis When (if ever) did Empire End? 'Internal Decolonisation' in British Culture since the 1950s' S.Howe Index