The Second Elizabethan Era: Geopolitics in a Changing World

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The Second Elizabethan Era: Geopolitics in a Changing World, At the beginning of Elizabeth II’s reign, colour-coded maps provided a quick guide to the far-flung colonial possessions of Europe’s empires. By the 1960s and ’70s, however, nationalist independence movements had helped bring about widespread decolonization of British, French, Dutch, Belgian, and Portuguese possessions (especially in Africa), and the British Empire, on which, it was said, “the sun never set,” had transformed into the Commonwealth, a...