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The South African policy of the British Labour government, 1947–51

Ritchie Ovendale
- 01 Jan 1982 - 
- Vol. 59, Iss: 1, pp 41-58
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This article is published in International Affairs.The article was published on 1982-01-01. It has received 17 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Government.

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The Geopolitical Origins of the Central African Federation: Britain, Rhodesia and South Africa, 1948–1953

TL;DR: The Central African Federation (1953-63) as discussed by the authors was the most controversial large-scale imperial exercise in constructive state-building ever undertaken by the British government and it appears now as a quite extraordinary mistake, an aberration of history (like the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem) a deviation from the inevitable historical trend of decolonization.
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Monstrous predatory vampires and beneficent fairy-godmothers: British post-war colonial development in Africa

TL;DR: This paper explored the concept of colonial development, as enacted by the Attlee government during the immediate post-war period, focusing on Africa, reflecting the second colonial occupation of the continent during this period and examines both economic and social welfare development initiatives.
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The geopolitics of dependent development in Central Africa: race, class and the reciprocal blockade

TL;DR: The authors explores dependent development, industrialisation and transitions to the semiperiphery, examining tensions between geopolitics, racial and class conflict that evolved into a reciprocal blockade in the Central African Federation (CAF), comprising Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Northern Rhodesia(Zambia) and Nyasaland (Malawi).
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In the National Interest: Dominions' Support for Britain and the Commonwealth after the Second World War

TL;DR: This paper examined three crucial aspects of relations between Britain and Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in the 1940s to show the extensive and tangible support that the ‘old dominions’ extended to Britain.
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British Labour and the Cold War: The Foreign Policy of the Labour Governments, 1945–1951

TL;DR: For the Labour movement as a whole, the story of these years can be summarized simply: the reluctant abandonment of hopes of Anglo-Soviet friendship and the grudging acceptance of an Anglo-American alliance as discussed by the authors.