The limits to collaboration : the impact of the establishment of the NAAFI (navy, army & airforce institutes) on Malta's mercantile class

Abstract

The decline of British Imperialism seems to have been a complex matter in which home-grown nationalism undoubtedly played an important role, but it was a nationalism which was often unwittingly fanned by British administrators whose clumsiness fuelled the opposition of privileged local elites. This paper looks at one such episode when changes in metropolitan policy led to impositions on a local agent which the latter found unpalatable.