Bücher von Muriel E. Chamberlain

This title covers the rise of the European empires in the early modern period, right up to the height of empire in the 19th and early 20th centuries, this is a guide to Imperialism. The moder period receives a more detailed treatment.

This volume contains essential facts and figures relating to European decolonization in the 20th century. Containing biographies of the leading figures, it takes each European empire in turn and offers a detailed chronology of the process of decolonization in the individual states.

In this examination of Britain's political and diplomatic role on the international stage during the century of her imperial greatness, Muriel Chamberlain looks at how British foreign policy was affected, and to some extent dictated, by domestic political issues.