Duncan Sandys and the Informal Politics of Britain's Late Decolonisation

• Main Author: Brooke, Peter (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
• Subjects: Imperialism.; Great Britain-History.; World politics.; History, Modern.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Political History.; Modern History.

This book throws new light on the impact of informal 'old boy' networks on British decolonisation. Duncan Sandys was one of the leading Conservative politicians of the middle decades of twentieth-century Britain. He was also a key figure in the Harold Macmillan's 'Winds of Change...