Overview
- Explores the enduring historical ties of the Commonwealth as an institution
- Brings together leading scholars in imperial, post-colonial and commonwealth history to reflect on the Commonwealth’s significance
- Examines the Commonwealth’s ongoing influence on law, constitutionalism and federation, as well as its importance in particular countries and regions
Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)
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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.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“There is a wealth of material – and views – in the book which would be of interest to both specialists and lay readers.” (The Commonwealth Lawyer, Vol. 31 (1), April, 2021)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Saul Dubow is Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge, UK, and an expert on South Africa.
Richard Drayton is Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London, UK, with a special interest in the Caribbean.
Both teach and write about global and imperial history.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Commonwealth History in the Twenty-First Century
Editors: Saul Dubow, Richard Drayton
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41788-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41787-1Published: 06 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41790-1Published: 06 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41788-8Published: 05 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 345
Topics: Imperialism and Colonialism, Modern History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Political History, Legal History