William Roger Louis

World History

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His teaching fields are the British Empire and Commonwealth and the comparative history of colonialism, Belgian, French, Dutch, German, and Portuguese; and the history, literature, and politics of nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain. Geographic Area(s) of Study: Africa, Middle East, Europe: Modern, South Asia. Thematic Field(s), Empire and Globalization. Recent Publications: Professor Louis has recently published Ends of British Imperialism: the Scramble for Empire, Suez, and Decolonization (2006). He has written or edited more than thirty books including Imperialism at Bay (1977) and The British Empire in the Middle East (1984). His edited publications include The End of the Palestine Mandate (1986), The Transfers of Power in Africa (1988), Suez 1956 (1989), The Iraqi Revolution (1991), and Churchill (1993). He is the past President of the American Historical Association and the present Director of the AHA's National History Center. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Oxford History of the British Empire, and the former Chairman of the Historical Advisory Committee, U.S. Department of State (resigned on principle, 2008).

Ends of British Imperialism

December 04, 2012

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/360521.Ends_of_British_Imperialism Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez, and Decolonization by William Roger Louis, Wm. Roger…

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