Disintegrating Empire examines the entangled histories of three threads of decolonization: the French welfare state, family migration from Algeria, and the Fren

A historical survey of the many ways empires have succumbed to external and internal pressures. There are no self-proclaimed empires today. After the twentieth

Economic and political changes in the home countries, the awakening national conciousness of the African and Asian peoples, and the effects of the Second World