Decolonization and its Impact is a ground-breaking comparative study of decolonization from before the Second World War to the early 1960s.

• Compares key cases across the European colonial empires
• Focuses on the process and impact of decolonization at the level of the 'late colonial state' and of colonial societies
• Presents an original model of decolonization that seeks to reconcile imperial and nationalist perspectives
• Engages with important theoretical approaches
• Makes extensive reference to recent literature on the subject

Martin Shipway is Lecturer in French Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of The Road to War: France and Vietnam, 1944-1947 (1996) and has written journal articles and book chapters on French colonial policy making and decolonization in Indochina, sub-Saharan Africa, Algeria and Madagascar, as well as on colonial discourse, psychology and photography, and on post-colonial memory.