Abstract
The postwar decolonisation process has not only transformed the former colonies, but has also affected the colonial metropolises inWestern Europe, the United States, and Japan. This introductory survey charts the terrain and discusses the effects - political, economic, social, and cultural - that the loss of empire had on the former colonising societies.While some of these effects were palpable, most prominently as a result of postcolonial migration, in most countries they were strikingly marginal to public discussions and consciousness until the 1990s. The article argues that the vanishing of empires and the disappearance of the traces of the imperial past need to be situated within the larger context of the global Cold War.
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