Cold War Politics and the Decline of Empire

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• Silhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,669MI6 Agent

  May 2015

  That sounds just up my street. I'll certainly give that a read. Thanks for the link. -{

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• cheld Posts: 300MI6 Agent

  May 2015

  Kent007 wrote:

  Bit of shameless self-promotion time.
  
  I recent completed by dissertation entitled "Cold War Politics and the Decline of Empire in Ian Fleming's James Bond Stories"

  
  Which empire declined during the time period of Fleming's books? Britain's was pretty much done with the independence of India, and America's grew (and continues to do so), in military domination at least if not in proper colonial nomenclature.
• Kent007 Posts: 338MI6 Agent

  June 2015

  cheld wrote:

  Kent007 wrote:

  Bit of shameless self-promotion time.
  
  I recent completed by dissertation entitled "Cold War Politics and the Decline of Empire in Ian Fleming's James Bond Stories"

  
  Which empire declined during the time period of Fleming's books? Britain's was pretty much done with the independence of India, and America's grew (and continues to do so), in military domination at least if not in proper colonial nomenclature.

  
  I look at the representation of Britain's decline in the books and compare that to the growth of America's.

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