Beyond co-operation and competition

Anglo-French relations, connected histories of decolonization and Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence, 1965-80

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ID4861668
AuthorsJoanna Warson (University of Portsmouth, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume88
Issue242
Pages740-764
Publication date2015-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistorical Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0950-3471 • E-ISSN: 1468-2281
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/1468-2281.12109
OpenAlexW1934304575
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited3

This article analyses Anglo-French relations with regard to Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (U.D.I.). It highlights how long-standing ideas about co-operation and competition shaped British and French views of each other in the Rhodesian context, as well as French policies towards U.D.I. The article then moves beyond the dichotomy between alliance and acrimony, identifying other themes that informed Anglo-French relations in this rebellious British colony. By exploring interaction between Britain, France and Rhodesia, it challenges the binaries that dominate the study of the end of European colonial rule in the twentieth century, offering instead a connected history of decolonization

Alliance · Archaeology · Colonial rule · Colonialism · Competition (biology · Context (archaeology · Declaration · Declaration of independence · Decolonization · Economic history · Independence (probability theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Australian History and Society · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law

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