The afterlife of Empire / Jordanna Bailkin.

By:

Bailkin, Jordanna [author]

Contributor(s):

University of California, Berkeley. Global, Area, and International Archive [issuing body.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Berkeley series in British studies ; 4.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.Description: xii, 368 p. : ill. ; 23 cmContent type:

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ISBN:

9780520289475 (pbk)

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DDC classification:

352.34109048

Contents:

Introduction -- 1. The birth of the migrant: pathology and postwar mobility -- 2. Young Britons: international aid and "development" in the age of adolescent -- 3. Problem learners: overseas students and the dilemmas of Cold War education -- 4. Much married men: polygamy, culture and the state -- 5. The postcolonial family? Problem parents and children -- 6. Leaving home: the politics of deportation -- Conclusion.

Summary: "The Afterlife of Empire investigates how decolonization transformed the British society in the 1950s and 1960s. Although usually charted through diplomatic details, the empire's collapse was also a personal process that altered everyday life, restructuring routines and social interactions. Using a vast array of recently declassified sources, Jordanna Bailkin recasts the genealogy and geography of welfare by charting its unseen dependence on the end of empire, and illuminates the relationship between the postwar and the postimperial."-- Publisher's description.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Course reserves
Reserve - Overnight loan	CYA Library Reserve	352.34109048 BAI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000010367		Gandolfo, Romolo

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The Afterlife of Empire investigates how decolonization transformed the British society in the 1950s and 1960s. Although usually charted through diplomatic details, the empire's collapse was also a personal process that altered everyday life, restructuring routines and social interactions. Using a vast array of recently declassified sources, Jordanna Bailkin recasts the genealogy and geography of welfare by charting its unseen dependence on the end of empire, and illuminates the relationship between the postwar and the postimperial."-- Publisher's description.