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After WWII, Britain had a vision of renewing and even expanding their Empire, seeing the British Empire as a superpower in a new world order. Superpower Britain looks at what actually happened to Britain in the post-war period and how reality looked so different from the ideas put forward by leading politicians, civil servants, and experts.
Ashley Jackson is Professor of Imperial and Military History at King's College London and a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford. He studied for postgraduate degrees at New College, Oxford, and spent eight years as a research fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford and a year as a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University.
Andrew Stewart is an Honorary Professor at the Australian National University and Visiting Professor at King's College London. His previous roles have included Director of Academic Studies at the Royal College of Defence Studies and Principal at the Australian War College. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Higher Education Academy, he is also a trustee of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives and the Society for Military History. His research covers conflict, diplomacy, and international relations, and his writing focuses on the Second World War. He is currently Director of Conflict Research at the Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research, the British Army's think-tank.
- Preface
- Introduction: The dilemmas of 1945 and the received historical narrative
- Part One: The vision and the challenge
- 1: Foundations of the superpower vision
- 2: Empire, unity, peace, and expansion
- 3: Alternative futures and a future unknown
- 4: Coloniality and condescension continued
- 5: The plan
- Part Two: The problem with America
- 6: Atlantic entanglements: The American challenge
- 7: 'Hands off!': The British response
- Part Three: What the war did to the British Empire
- 8: The perils of war imperialism, I: South Asia
- 9: The perils of war imperialism, II: The Middle East
- 10: The colonial empire, British thinking, and international debate
- 11: The colonial empire at the local level
- 12: United, but not a unit: Britain and the dominions
- Conclusion Why the vision faded: Unravelling expectations in a changing world
- Epilogue