Chapter 1 Introduction — The Ends of Empire: Chronologies, Historiographies, and Trajectories

Chapter 2 Development, Modernization, and the Social Sciences in the Era of Decolonization: The Examples of British and French Africa

Chapter 3 A Modernizing Empire? Politics, Culture, and Economy in Portuguese Late Colonialism

Chapter 4 Commanders with or without Machine-Guns: Robert Delavignette and the Future of the French-African ‘Imperial Nation State’, 1956–58

Chapter 5 Imperial Endings and Small States: Disorderly Decolonization for the Netherlands, Belgium, and Portugal

Chapter 6 Myths of Decolonization: Britain, France, and Portugal Compared

Chapter 7 Exporting Britishness: Decolonization in Africa, the British State and Its Clients

Chapter 8 Acceptable Levels? The Use and Threat of Violence in Central Africa, 1953–64

Chapter 10 Lumumba and the 1960 Congo Crisis: Cold War and the Neo-Colonialism of Belgian Decolonization

Chapter 11 The International Dimensions of Portuguese Colonial Crisis

Chapter 12 Last Days of Empire