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__Uncertain Dimensions__ was first published in 1985. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. World War I battered the Western imperial systems and destroyed one, that of Germany, but it did not sound the death knell of an empire. The "scramble" for overseas territory ha reached a virtual conclusion shortly before the war; afterwards, the main business of empire was to ensure a __pax colonia:__ the often contradictory goals of a stable government and economic development. It is with the years between world wars—the brief age of administrative empire — that Raymond Betts is chiefly concerned in this book. An unsettled time, when individuals coped with empire of uncertain dimensions, the interwar years nonetheless left a material legacy—railroads, motor roads, public buildings — and an ideological one—the voices of protest that led to independence after World War II. Preeminently a cultural history of the era rather than a political narrative, __Uncertain Dimensions__ centers upon the regions we now call the Third World—Subsaharan Afri

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Author

Raymond F Betts; Boyd C Shafer

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816613090

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Social_sciences