William Roger Louis - Articles and Book Chapters

Articles and Book Chapters

• "The United States and the African Peace Settlement of 1919: The Pilgrimage of George Louis Beer" (Journal of African History, 1963)
• "Roger Casement and the Congo" (Journal of African History, 1964)
• "E.D. Morel and the Triumph of the Congo Reform Association" (Boston University Papers on Africa, 1966)
• "Australia and the German Colonies in the Pacific During the First World War," Journal of Modern History Vol. 38, No. 4, December 1966
• "The Repartition of Africa During the First World War" (American Historical Review, 1966)
• "The Scramble for Africa: Sir Percy Anderson's Grand Strategy" (English Historical Review, 1966)
• "The Beginning of the Mandates System of the League of Nations" (International Organization, 1969)
• "The Berlin Congo Conference and the (Non-) Partition of Africa, 1884-85" (France and Britain in Africa, 1971)
• "Robinson and Gallagher and Their Critics" (The Robinson and Gallagher Controversy, 1976)
• "The Road to the Fall of Singapore, 1942: British Imperialism in East Asia in the 1930s" (The Fascist Challenge and the Policy of Appeasement, 1983)
• "American Anti-Colonialism, Suez, and the Special Relationship" (International Affairs, 1985)
• "The Partitions of India and Palestine" (Warfare, Diplomacy, and Politics: Essays in Honour of A.J.P. Taylor, 1986)
• "The End of the Palestine Mandate" (The End of the Palestine Mandate, 1986)
• "A Prime Donna with Honour: Eden and Suez" (Times Literary Supplement, 31 October 1986)
• "Taking the Plunge Into Indian Independence" (Times Literary Supplement, 28 August 1987)
• "Libya: The Creation of a Client State" (Decolonization and African Independence: The Transfers of Power, 1960-1980, 1988)
• "The Governing Intellect: L.S. Amery, the British Empire, and Indian Independence" (Times Literary Supplement, 26 August 1988)
• "Taxing Transfers of Power in Africa" (Times Literary Supplement, 10 February 1989)
• "An American Volcano in the Middle East: John Foster Dulles and the Suez Crisis" (John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War, 1990)
• "The Origins of the Iraqi Revolution" (The Iraqi Revolution of 1958, 1991)
• "The Coming of Independence in the Sudan" (Margery Perham and British Rule in Africa, 1991)
• "Prelude to Suez: Churchill and Egypt" (Churchill: A Major New Assessment of His Life in Peace and War, 1993)
• (with Ronald Robinson) "The Imperialism of Decolonization" (Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 1994)
• "Hong Kong: The Critical Phase, 1945-49" (American Historical Review, 1997)
• "The Colonial Empires in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" (Oxford History of the Twentieth Century, 1998)
• "The Historiography of the British Empire" (Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol. 5, 1999)
• "The Middle East Crisis of 1958" (A Revolutionary Year: The Middle East in 1958, 2002)
• "The Dissolution of the British Empire in the Era of Vietnam" (American Historical Review, 2002)
• "The Withdrawal from the Gulf" (Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 2003)
• "Musaddiq, Oil, and the Dilemmas of British Imperialism" (Ends of British Imperialism, 2006. Updated from earlier essay in Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran, 2004)
• "The Pax Americana: Sir Keith Hancock, the British Empire, and American Expansion" (English Historical Review, 2005)
• "Suez and Decolonization: Scrambling out of Africa and Asia" (Ends of British Imperialism, 2006)
• "The British and the French Colonial Empire: Trusteeship and Self-Interest" (Ends of British Imperialism, 2006)
• "The United Nations and the Suez Crisis: British Ambivalence Towards the Pope on the East River (Ends of British Imperialism, 2006)
• "Public Enemy Number One: Britain and the United Nations in the Aftermath of Suez" (The British Empire in the 1950s: Retreat or Revival?, 2006)