The episodes covered include: the 1962 Western Region crisis in Nigeria, the Australian constitutional crisis of 1975, India's parliamentary crisis of 1979, the Queensland coalition crisis of 1983, and the constitutional crisis in Malaysia, ...

This Book Is Concerned With British Diplomacy Towards The Sub-Continent In The Aftermath Of Its Partition, And With The Tortuous Path To The Formula Of The `London Declaration` Of April 1949, On Which The New Commonwealth Was Founded.

"'The summer of 1940 marked the consummation of an astonishing decline in British fortunes.

This Book Is By All Standards One Of The Best One-Volume History Of The Rise And Fall Of The British Empire.