After Empires describes how the end of colonial empires and the changes in international politics and economies after decolonization affected the European integ

This volume brings together a group of some of the most outstanding scholars in political science, history, and historical sociology to examine the causes of im

Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable

A pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present.

This collection of essays investigates the fundamental role that the loss of colonial territories at the end of the Ancient Regime and post-World War II has pla