Party Politics and Decolonization: The Conservative Party and British Colonial Policy in Tropical Africa, 1951-1964

by Philip Murphy

Overview

Party Politics and Decolonization explores the relationship between Conservative Party politics and British colonial policy in tropical Africa during the unbroken period of Conservative government from 1951 to 1964. Based on recently released documentary evidence, much of it never before published, Philip Murphy's study traces the development of Conservative attitudes towards Britain's role as a colonial power and describes reactions within the party to the rapid British withdrawal from Africa following the 1959 General Election.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198205050
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/13/1995
Series:	Oxford Historical Monographs
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.75(h) x 0.78(d)
Lexile:	1840L (what's this?)

About the Author

St Anthony's College, Oxford

Editorial Reviews

"This is an excellent book-well written and thoroughly grounded in research. The extent of its coverage and the clarity of its analysis should make it reuired reading for all historians and political scientists."—The Albion

"...Murphy's excellent monograph adds a great deal of new information and some reinterpretation to our understanding on the role of the British Conservative Party in the decolonization of Africa...Murphy's use of new material is impressive..."—American Historical Review

"Well researched and nicely documented."—CHOICE

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