Britain and the Empire-Commonwealth, 1945-63 : a metropolitan perspective

Defence date: 3 June 1999Examining Board: Kirti Chaudhuri, European University Institute (supervisor) ; Prof. Robert Holland, Institute for Commonwealth Studies London (co-supervisor) ; Prof. Bo Stråth, European University Institute ; Prof. Clemens Wurm, Humboldt-Universität BerlinPDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 2017Examine the views of the Empire and Commonwealth held by British policy makers during the two decades after World War II, arguing that the institutional framework of the formal and informal empire and the Commonwealth was considered necessary and useful to promote British interests