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Decolonization (Making of the Contemporary World)
Published in Hardcover by Routledge (July, 1998)
Author: Raymond F. Betts
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The author of this book is clearly literate and well-read, and puts together a really interesting chronology and analysis of the effects of the breakup of the European empires. At the beginning I wasn't very encouraged, as I found the first chapter to be a little too abstract and opining, but thereafter the author quickly gets into some fascinating matters of real substance. We learn where the term 'third world' was first used; how when the inhabitants of French Guinea opted for full independence the French decolonised so emphatically they took the phones off the walls when they left; how Bokassa's coronation ceremony is alleged to have cost a quarter of his country's wealth, and so on.

Don't let the brevity put you off: this is a well-written, well-rounded portrait of decolonisation by a guy with informed opinions on these matters. A great read.


Assimilation and Association in French Colonial Theory 1890-1914 (Columbia University Social Science Studies Series No. 604)
Published in Hardcover by AMS Press (December, 1970)
Author: Raymond F. Betts
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Europe in Retrospect: A Brief History of the Past Two Hundred Years
Published in Paperback by D C Heath & Co (June, 1979)
Author: Raymond F. Betts
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Europe overseas: phases of imperialism
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Author: Raymond F. Betts
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The False Dawn: European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
Published in Hardcover by Univ of Minnesota Pr (Trd) (December, 1975)
Author: Raymond F. Betts
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France and Decolonisation (The Making of the Twentieth Century)
Published in Paperback by Palgrave Macmillan (09 September, 1991)
Author: Raymond F. Betts
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France and Decolonization, 1900-1960 (The Making of the 20th Century)
Published in Hardcover by Palgrave Macmillan (September, 1991)
Author: Raymond, F. Betts
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French Colonial Studies
Published in Hardcover by University Press of America (18 August, 1986)
Authors: Raymond F. Betts and John K. Munholland
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The 'Scramble' for Africa: Causes and Dimensions of Empire,
Published in Paperback by D C Heath & Co (January, 1972)
Author: Raymond F. Betts
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Uncertain Dimensions
Published in Paperback by Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt) (July, 1985)
Author: Raymond F. Betts
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