Decolonization

<P>Raymond F. Betts considers the ''process'' of decolonization and the outcomes which have left a legacy of problems, drawing on numerous examples including Ghana, India, Rwanda and Hong Kong. He examines:</P><UL><LI>the effects of the two World Wars on the colonial empire</LI><LI>the expectations and problems created by independence</LI><LI>the major demographic shifts accompanying the end of the empire</LI><LI>the cultural experiences, literary movements, and the search for ideology of the dying empire and the newly independent nations.</LI></UL><P>With an annotated bibliography and a chronology of political decolonization, <EM>Decolonization</EM> gives a concise, original and multi-disciplinary introduction to this controversial theme and analyzes what the future holds beyond the empire.</P>