Commonwealth History in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Commonwealth in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 2 The League of Nations and the ‘Third British Empire’, 1919–1940

Chapter 3 Commonwealth History from Below? Caribbean National, Federal and Pan-African Renegotiations of the Empire Project, c. 1880–1950

Chapter 4 Commonwealth Constitution-Maker: The Life of Yash Ghai

Chapter 5 ‘The Unbridgeable Gulf’: Responsible Self-Government and Aboriginal Title in Southern Rhodesia and the Commonwealth

Chapter 6 Commonwealth Communities: Immigration and Racial Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain

Chapter 7 Between Insignificance and Importance: The Commonwealth Headship in Contemporary History

Chapter 8 Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Republicanism, and the Commonwealth

Chapter 9 South African Indians, Monarchy and the New Commonwealth: Transnational Conversations and Perspectives, 1946–1948

Chapter 10 ‘Cuckoo in the Commonwealth Nest’: The Irish Impact and the Commonwealth Legacy for Ireland

Chapter 11 The Commonwealth and Apartheid

Chapter 12 Racial Legacies: South African Apartheid and the Old Commonwealth

Chapter 13 ‘A Bridge to Better Relations Between London and Vichy’: Jan Smuts, South Africa, and Commonwealth Diplomacy in the Second World War

Chapter 14 Globalising Suez: Commonwealth Diplomacy and the War of Algerian Independence (1955–1957)

Chapter 15 Whose Commonwealth? Negotiating Commonwealth Day in the 1950s and 1960s

Chapter 16 Banking on a Commonwealth Future