Berny Sèbe is Senior Lecturer in Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies at the University of Birmingham, UKMatthew G. Stanard is Professor of History at Berry College, USA

• Introduction: Making Sense of the End of Empire: Fluxes and Flows in Decolonising Europe?PART IMeaning: Making Sense of Decolonisation1. Magna Carta and the End of Empire2. The End of Empire and the Four Nations3. Reverberations of Decolonisation: British Approaches to Governance in Post-colonial Africa and the Rise of the ‘Strong Men’PART IIMedia: Words and Images of the End of Empire4. The Semantics of Decolonisation: The Public Debate on the New Guinea Question in the Netherlands, 1950-625. Decolonisation and the Press: A Path to Pluralism in Franco’s Spain, ca. 1950-75PART IIIMemory: Recalling Empire in Post-imperial Worlds6. Afterlives of Colonialism in the Everyday: Street Names and the (Un)Making of Imperial Debris7. Passing the Point of No Return: Italy’s Regretted End of Empire and the Mogadishu Massacre of 19488. Oases of Imperial Nostalgia: British and French Desert Memories after Empire9. Questioning Portugal’s Social Cohesion, and Preparing Post-imperial Memory: Returned Settlers (retornados) and Portuguese Society, 1975-80PART IVMaterial Culture: Tactile Rémanences10. Ephemera and the Dynamics of Colonial Memory11. Domestic Museums of Decolonisation? Objects, Colonial Officials, and the Afterlives of Empire in Britain12. Decongolizing Europe? African Art and Post-Colony BelgiumPART VMomentum: Decolonisation and its AftermathAfterword: Diverging Experiences of Decolonisation

Berny Sèbe is Senior Lecturer in Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies at the University of Birmingham, UKMatthew G. Stanard is Professor of History at Berry College, USA

• Introduction: Making Sense of the End of Empire: Fluxes and Flows in Decolonising Europe?PART IMeaning: Making Sense of Decolonisation1. Magna Carta and the End of Empire2. The End of Empire and the Four Nations3. Reverberations of Decolonisation: British Approaches to Governance in Post-colonial Africa and the Rise of the ‘Strong Men’PART IIMedia: Words and Images of the End of Empire4. The Semantics of Decolonisation: The Public Debate on the New Guinea Question in the Netherlands, 1950-625. Decolonisation and the Press: A Path to Pluralism in Franco’s Spain, ca. 1950-75PART IIIMemory: Recalling Empire in Post-imperial Worlds6. Afterlives of Colonialism in the Everyday: Street Names and the (Un)Making of Imperial Debris7. Passing the Point of No Return: Italy’s Regretted End of Empire and the Mogadishu Massacre of 19488. Oases of Imperial Nostalgia: British and French Desert Memories after Empire9. Questioning Portugal’s Social Cohesion, and Preparing Post-imperial Memory: Returned Settlers (retornados) and Portuguese Society, 1975-80PART IVMaterial Culture: Tactile Rémanences10. Ephemera and the Dynamics of Colonial Memory11. Domestic Museums of Decolonisation? Objects, Colonial Officials, and the Afterlives of Empire in Britain12. Decongolizing Europe? African Art and Post-Colony BelgiumPART VMomentum: Decolonisation and its AftermathAfterword: Diverging Experiences of Decolonisation

Berny Sèbe is Senior Lecturer in Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies at the University of Birmingham, UKMatthew G. Stanard is Professor of History at Berry College, USA

• Introduction: Making Sense of the End of Empire: Fluxes and Flows in Decolonising Europe?PART IMeaning: Making Sense of Decolonisation1. Magna Carta and the End of Empire2. The End of Empire and the Four Nations3. Reverberations of Decolonisation: British Approaches to Governance in Post-colonial Africa and the Rise of the ‘Strong Men’PART IIMedia: Words and Images of the End of Empire4. The Semantics of Decolonisation: The Public Debate on the New Guinea Question in the Netherlands, 1950-625. Decolonisation and the Press: A Path to Pluralism in Franco’s Spain, ca. 1950-75PART IIIMemory: Recalling Empire in Post-imperial Worlds6. Afterlives of Colonialism in the Everyday: Street Names and the (Un)Making of Imperial Debris7. Passing the Point of No Return: Italy’s Regretted End of Empire and the Mogadishu Massacre of 19488. Oases of Imperial Nostalgia: British and French Desert Memories after Empire9. Questioning Portugal’s Social Cohesion, and Preparing Post-imperial Memory: Returned Settlers (retornados) and Portuguese Society, 1975-80PART IVMaterial Culture: Tactile Rémanences10. Ephemera and the Dynamics of Colonial Memory11. Domestic Museums of Decolonisation? Objects, Colonial Officials, and the Afterlives of Empire in Britain12. Decongolizing Europe? African Art and Post-Colony BelgiumPART VMomentum: Decolonisation and its AftermathAfterword: Diverging Experiences of Decolonisation