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Significant violence was involved in several prominent cases of decolonization of the British Empire; partition was a frequent solution. In 1783, the North American colonies were divided between the independent United States, and British North America , which later became Canada.
Decolonisation. in South East and South Asia, 1945-1948. The defeat of the British, Indian and Australian armies in Malaya (Malaysia) and Singapore by the Imperial Japanese Army in February 1942 foreshadowed the eventual end of the British Empire in the region. The subsequent loss of prestige for the empire permeated across Asia, as the defeat ...
22 de abr. de 2024 · decolonization, process by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country. Decolonization was gradual and peaceful for some British colonies largely settled by expatriates but violent for others, where native rebellions were energized by nationalism.
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British decolonization, 1945–56 General elections in India in 1946 strengthened the Muslim League . In subsequent negotiations, punctuated by mass violence, the Congress Party leaders finally accepted partition as preferable to civil war, and in 1947 the British evacuated the subcontinent, leaving India and a territorially divided Pakistan to ...
12 de may. de 2022 · Arguments for the significance of decolonization in British history have often drawn on themes of trauma, dispossession, and decline. But have we yet taken account of all the ways that decolonization represented an active effort to refashion British society?
13 de mar. de 2019 · Studying post–World War II independence cases, we statistically examine consequences of postwar decolonization—which includes both colonial autonomy and independence—for democracy, internal conflict, government revenue growth, and economic growth using two-way fixed-effects models.
Evolutionary, educative and enlightened, decolonisation would avoid upheaval in Britain and lingering ill-will in former colonies; it would, by extension, enhance the peace and prosperity of the world, and offer a model for the Dutch, French, Belgian and Portuguese overseas empires.
