The Falklands War: An Imperial History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108483292)

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 the first history of the conflict from the transnational perspective of the British world. Taking Britain's painful process of decolonisation as his starting point, Ezequiel Mercau shows how the Falklands lobby helped revive the idea of a 'British world', transforming a minor squabble into a full-blown war. Boasting original perspectives on the Falklanders, the Four Nations and the Anglo-Argentines, and based on a wealth of unseen material, he sheds new light on the British world, Thatcher's Britain, devolution, immigration and political culture. His findings show that neither the dispute, the war, nor its aftermath can be divorced from the ongoing legacies of empire.

Author: Ezequiel Mercau
ISBN-10: 1108483291
ISBN-13: 9781108483292
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/16/2019
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2019