(Source: Routledge)
Routledge has published a new
edited collection on historical writing on the Commonwealth.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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.
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.
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