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Commonwealth scholarships began in 1959. They have since moved over 30,000 people across borders, launching them into influence as politicians, poets, painters, professors - and the rest. Their stories illuminate the sociology and politics of higher education, of the Commonwealth, and of its member countries: they include the last scholar before apartheid took South Africa out of the Commonwealth, who became a high court judge, and the first after it came back, now a vice-chancellor. The second edition of this book, revised and updated since it was first published to mark the scholarships' jub

Scholarships --- Commonwealth Scholarship & Fellowship Plan. --- Commonwealth Scholarship & Fellowship Plan --- History.

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GREAT BRITAIN--COLONIES --- COMMONWEALTH (ORGANIZATION)--HISTORY --- Commonwealth of Nations --- Commonwealth (Organization : 1950-1968) --- Britanskoe sodruzhestvo (1950-1968) --- British Commonwealth of Nations (1950-1968) --- British Commonwealth of Nations --- Commonwealth (Organization) --- History. --- Commonwealth countries --- Great Britain --- Colonies

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After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared doomed. But over the next 150 years it grew to become the greatest and most diverse empire the world has ever seen--from Canada to Australia to China, India, and Egypt--seven times larger than the Roman Empire at its apogee. Yet it was also fundamentally weak, as Piers Brendon shows in this panoramic chronicle. Run from a tiny island base, it operated on a shoestring with the help of local elites. It enshrined a belief in freedom that would fatally undermine its authority. Spread too thin, and facing wars, economic crises, and domestic discord, the empire would vanish almost as quickly as it appeared. Within a generation, it collapsed, sometimes amid bloodshed, leaving unfinished business in Rhodesia, the Falklands, and Hong Kong. Above all, it left a contested legacy: at best, a sporting spirit, a legal code, and a near-universal language; at worst, failed states and internecine strife.--From publisher description.

Imperialism --- Impérialisme --- History. --- Histoire --- Commonwealth (Organization) --- Great Britain --- Commonwealth countries --- Grande-Bretagne --- Pays du Commonwealth --- Colonies --- Civilization. --- Civilisation --- History --- Civilization --- Sodruzhestvo nat︠s︡iĭ --- Commonwealth of Nations

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The present volume contains general essays on: the relevance of ‘Commonwealth’ literature; the treatment of Dalits in literature and culture; the teaching of African literature in the UK; ‘sharing places’ and Drum magazine in South Africa; black British book covers as primers for cultural contact; Christianity, imperialism, and conversion; Orang Pendek and Papuans in colonial Indonesia; Carnival and drama in the anglophone Caribbean; issues of choice between the Maltese language and Its Others; and patterns of interaction between married couples in Malta. As well as these, there are essays providing close readings of works by the following authors: Chinua Achebe, André Aciman, Diran Adebayo, Monica Ali, Edward Atiyah, Margaret Atwood, Murray Bail, Peter Carey, Amit Chaudhuri, Austin Clarke, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Amitav Ghosh, Nadine Gordimer, Antjie Krog, Hanif Kureishi, Naguib Mahfouz, David Malouf, V.S. Naipaul, Michael Ondaatje, Tayeb Salih, Zadie Smith, Ahdaf Soueif, Yvonne Vera. Contributors: Jogamaya Bayer, Katrin Berndt, Sabrina Brancato, Monica Bungaro, Judith Lütge Coulli, Robert Cribb, Natasha Distiller, Evelyne Hanquart–Turner, Marie Herbillon, Tuomas Huttunen, Gen’ichiro Itakura, Jacqueline Jondot, Karen King–Aribisala, Ursula Kluwick, Dorothy Lane, Ben Lebdai, Lourdes López–Ropero, Amin Malak, Daniel Massa, Concepción Mengibar–Rico, Susanne Reichl, Brigitte Scheer–Schaezler, Lydia Sciriha, Jamie S. Scott, Andrea Strolz, Peter O. Stummer, Cynthia vanden Driesen, Clare Thake Vassallo.

Commonwealth literature (English) --- Commonwealth fiction (English) --- Postcolonialism --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Postcolonialism. --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Commonwealth of Nations fiction (English) --- English fiction --- Commonwealth of Nations literature (English) --- English literature --- History and criticism --- Commonwealth of Nations authors --- Commonwealth countries. --- British Commonwealth countries --- British Commonwealth nations --- British Dominions --- Commonwealth nations

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Local government --- Commonwealth countries. --- Administration locale