1. The Collapse of European Empires
... eventual self-governance, perhaps with the western values of civilisation but while this may be a sensible argument, the alternative still remains, in which Austin offers: "Like their European counterparts, it can be argued, the British quite underestimated the cumulative force of nationalist sentiment in the colonial world." ... liberal after the First World War at this time which meant imperial order was a fading ideology, henceforth, leading to their inevitable downfall. Austin is clear in his argument in that he finds himself struck by the persistent view that the decolonisation of t...
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