The Falklands War : an imperial history /

The Falklands War : an imperial history / Ezequiel Mercau, University College Dublin.

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"Why did Britain and Argentina go to war over a wintry archipelago that was home to an unprofitable colony? Could the Falklands War, in fact, have been a last-ditch revival of Britain's imperial past? Despite widespread conjecture about the imperial dimensions of the Falklands War, this is...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Mercau, Ezequiel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Falkland Islands War, 1982 > Causes.
Falkland Islands War, 1982 > Diplomatic history.
Diplomatic history.
Diplomatic relations.
International law.
War > Causes.
Falkland Islands > International status.
Falkland Islands > History > 20th century.
Great Britain > Foreign relations > Argentina.
Argentina > Foreign relations > Great Britain.
Argentina.
Falkland Islands.
Great Britain.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the Falklands and the legacies of empire
  • Adrift in the South Atlantic: the Falklands amid the turmoil of decolonisation
  • 'Dream island': the long prelude to war
  • 'Goodbye and the best of British': echoes of Greater Britain at the onset of war
  • 'The ghost of imperial Britain': militarism and the memory of empire
  • War of the British worlds: the Anglo-Argentines and the Falklands
  • 'Beyond the quieting of the guns': the Falklands factor and the after-effects of war
  • Conclusion: the legacies of Greater Britain.

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