TY - BOOK AU - Buettner,Elizabeth TI - Europe after empire: decolonization, society, and culture T2 - New approaches to European history SN - 9780521113861 (hardback : alkaline paper) U1 - 325.34 PY - 2016/// CY - UK PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Decolonization KW - Europe KW - Postcolonialism KW - Imperialism KW - Multiculturalism KW - Immigrants KW - HISTORY / Europe / General N1 - Introduction -- PART I. DECOLONIZATION FOR COLONIZERS : EUROPE'S TRANSITION TO THE POSTCOLONIAL ERA. Myths of continuity and European exceptionalism : Britain, decolonization, and the Commonwealth family ideal -- Occupation, resistance, and liberation : the road to Dutch decolonization -- Soldiering on in the shadow of war : decolonizing la Plus Grande France -- Long live the king? : Belgium, the monarchy, and the Congo between the Second World War and the decolonization years -- From rose-coloured map to Carnation Revolution : Portugal's overseas amputations -- PART II. MIGRATIONS AND MULTICULTURALISMS IN POSTCOLONIAL EUROPE. Ending empires, coming home : the ghost worlds of European colonial repatriates -- Ethnic minority immigration from empires lost -- Reconfiguring nations : identities, belonging, and multiculturalism in the wake of postcolonial migration -- PART III. MEMORIES, LEGACIES, AND FURTHER DIRECTIONS. Remembering and forgetting empires -- EPILOGUE : THOUGHTS TOWARD NEW HISTORIES OF COMTEMPORARY EUROPE UR - http://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/13861/cover/9780521113861.jpg ER -