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Losing the Blanket: Australia and the End of Britain's Empire by David Goldsworthy - ISBN: 9780522850284
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An account of British decolonization and its aftermath. It discusses its implications for Australian policies in the key areas of defence in Southeast Asia, the politics of the Commonwealth, the European Union, Australia’s own colonial policy and the bilateral relationship with Britain itself.

Losing the Blanket: Australia and the End of Britain's Empire

Australia and the End of Britain's Empire

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    209 pages

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    1 September 1998

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Summary

When Britain’s sprawling empire wound down with unexpected speed in the 1960s, Australia lost a comforting ‘security blanket’. We had to struggle to re-establish and protect ourselves in a volatile and threatening world.

Australia’s interests in empire had taken many forms-strategic, economic, cultural and psychological. Indeed Australia had used British experience as a template for its own ‘mini-imperialism’, in Papua and New Guinea for example. The most important connnections betwee…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780522850284
ISBN-10:0522850286
Author:David Goldsworthy
Publisher:Melbourne University
Imprint:Melbourne University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:209
Edition:1st
Release Date:1 September 1998
Weight:376g
Dimensions:15mm x 196mm x 236mm
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About The Author

David Goldsworthy

David Goldsworthy is an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University. His most recent books include The Conservative Government and the End of Empire (HMSO 1994) and Facing North- A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia, vol. 1 (MUP 2001).

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