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标题：The Rise, Decline and Future of the British Commonwealth. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2006.
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作者：Srinivasan, Krishnan
期刊名称：Historische Literatur
印刷版ISSN：1611-9509
出版年度：2007
卷号：05
期号：01
出版社：Franz Steiner Verlag
摘要：Thinking about the Commonwealth immediately causes confusion, starting with terminology: is it the British Commonwealth, the Commonwealth of Nations, or simply the Commonwealth? And what does it stand for: softening Britain’s retreat from Empire in the postwar world, a community of countries with a common language and common values, or simply the legacy of the British imperial tradition? Readers who avail themselves to the chapter on the Commonwealth in the readily available Encyclopedia of the British Empire do not get much further, apart from learning that the Commonwealth signifies the “antithesis” of “Empire” and that it forms “the most noticeable part of the Imperial legacy after the English language and cricket” (p. 693, 702). [1] Literature on the history of the Commonwealth is sparse, perhaps reflecting the elusive character of an association that officially came into being in 1931 (as the British Commonwealth of Nation) and renamed the Commonwealth of Nations in 1946. All the more important is this short but provocative book by Krishnan Srinivasan, a historian, Indian diplomat and former senior member of the Commonwealth secretariat.
关键词：Marc Frey, International University Bremen