Lord Hailey, the Colonial Office and the Politics of Race and Empire in the Second World War: The Loss of White Prestige. (Reviews of Books).

Suke Wolton. Lord Hailey, the Colonial Office and the Politics of Race and Empire in the Second World War: The Loss of White Prestige. (St. Antony's Series.) New York: Palgrave. 2000. Pp. xii, 221. $65.00. ISBN 0-312-23214-4.

British imperial policy makers in the 1930s and early 1940s were once judged to be committed to advancing the political development of dependent peoples on the road to independence. We now know their priority was to retain rather than disengage from the empire. This monograph probes the rationales developed to justify retention in the context of mounting ...

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