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Decolonization.
Decolonization. By RAYMOND F. BETTS. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp. 112. [pounds]8.99, paperback (ISBN 0-415-15236-4).
This slim volume on a large subject forms part of a still more ambitious series on 'The Making of the Contemporary World'. Betts' aim in the early chapters appears to be to give students some of the flavour of the vanished cultures of colonialism, which he approaches through the metaphors of 'landscape' and of 'stage performance'. His spatial and temporal limits are wide and indeterminate. Betts implies that the performance concluded in 1963 with Kenyan independence (the problems of southern Africa are barely discussed) but he has earlier …
