Commonwealth History in the Twenty-First Century

Saul Dubow, Richard Drayton, Saul Dubow, Richard Drayton

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9783030417871
• eBook ISBN: 9783030417888
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Modern History
• Index: History

This edited collection draws together new historical writing on the Commonwealth. It features the work of younger scholars, as well as established academics, and highlights themes such as law and sovereignty, republicanism and the monarchy, French engagement with the Commonwealth, the anti-apartheid struggle, race and immigration, memory and commemoration, and banking. The volume focusses less on the Commonwealth as an institution than on the relevance and meaning of the Commonwealth to its member countries and peoples. By adopting oblique, de-centred, approaches to Commonwealth history, unusual or overlooked connections are brought to the fore while old problems are looked at from fresh vantage points – be this turning points like the relationship between 'old' and `new' Commonwealth members from 1949, or the distinctive roles of major figures like Jawaharlal Nehru or Jan Smuts. The volume thereby aims to refresh interest in Commonwealth history as a field of comparative international history.

Index¹

A

Aboriginal Societies and the Common Law (McHugh)

Aborigines’ of Southern Rhodesia

Aborigines Protection Society

Abrahams, P.

Acland, A.

Adeane, M.

African Communities (Imperial) League

Africanisation policies

African National Congress (ANC)

African nationalism

African property rights, in Rhodesia

African socialism

Afrikaner nationalism

Afrikaner National Party

Afrikaner Rebellion

Afrikaner republican solidarity

Ageron, C.-R.

Aiken, F.

Aldrich, H.

Aldrich, R.

Algeria

Commonwealth negotiation

Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Meetings to debate colonial policy

Algerian War

Ali, C. M.

Ali, M.

Alienated lands

Aliens Act

All-Asia Conference

Alphand, H.

Amery, L.

Amin, I.

Anglo-American alliance

Anglo-Boer War, see Boer War (South Arfican War)

Anglo-Irish Protestant

Anglo-Irish settlement

Anglo-Irish tariff war

Anglo-Irish Treaty

‘Anglo-Saxon’ networks

Anglosphere

Anti-Apartheid and British policies

Anti-Apartheid Movement

Anti-apartheid principles

Anti-German influence, on French government

Anti-immigrant sentiment

Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society

Anyaoku, E.

Apartheid

arms boycott

government

sanctions

Apartheid and International Finance: A Program for Change

Arab government

Arusha Declaration

Asian Commonwealth citizens

Asian leaders

Asian ‘New’ Commonwealth citizens

‘Asian values’ debate

Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act

Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India and Ceylon (ASSOCHAM)

Atlantic Charter (1941)

Attlee, C.

Attlee, M.

Australian Federation (1901)

Australian identity

Australian law

Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO)

Autonomous communities, within the British Empire

B

Babb, G.

Baghdad Pact

Bains, H.

Balewa, A. T.

Balfour Declaration

Balfour Report

Bandaranaike, W. R. D.

Bandung Conference

Bank of England

and Commonwealth

Banks, in New Commonwealth States

Basner, H.

Battle of Dakar

Baudouin, Paul

Bavadra, T.

Bayly, C. A.

Beattie, S.

Belich, J.

Benn, A. S.

Benn, T.

Bennett, R. B.

Berger, T.

Bevin, E.

Birla, G. D.

Black internationalism

Blyden, E. W.

Boateng, P.

Bocking-Welch, A.

Boer War (South Arfican War)

Bo...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Introduction: The Commonwealth in the Twenty-First Century
• The League of Nations and the ‘Third British Empire’, 1919–1940
• Commonwealth History from Below? Caribbean National, Federal and Pan-African Renegotiations of the Empire Project, c. 1880–1950
• Commonwealth Constitution-Maker: The Life of Yash Ghai
• ‘The Unbridgeable Gulf’: Responsible Self-Government and Aboriginal Title in Southern Rhodesia and the Commonwealth
• Commonwealth Communities: Immigration and Racial Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain
• Between Insignificance and Importance: The Commonwealth Headship in Contemporary History
• Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Republicanism, and the Commonwealth
• South African Indians, Monarchy and the New Commonwealth: Transnational Conversations and Perspectives, 1946–1948
• ‘Cuckoo in the Commonwealth Nest’: The Irish Impact and the Commonwealth Legacy for Ireland
• The Commonwealth and Apartheid
• Racial Legacies: South African Apartheid and the Old Commonwealth
• ‘A Bridge to Better Relations Between London and Vichy’: Jan Smuts, South Africa, and Commonwealth Diplomacy in the Second World War
• Globalising Suez: Commonwealth Diplomacy and the War of Algerian Independence (1955–1957)
• Whose Commonwealth? Negotiating Commonwealth Day in the 1950s and 1960s
• Banking on a Commonwealth Future
• Back Matter