The Falklands War: An Imperial History

by Ezequiel Mercau

Why did Britain and Argentina go to war over a wintry archipelago that was home to an unprofitable colony? Could the Falklands War, in fact, have been a last-ditch revival of Britain's imperial past? Despite widespread conjecture about the imperial dimensions of the Falklands War, this is the first history of the conflict from the transnational perspective of the British world. Taking Britain's painful process of decolonisation as his starting point,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108483291
• ISBN13: 9781108483292
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"