Decolonization : perspectives from now and then /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London New York:
Routledge,
2004
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| Series: | Rewriting histories / Series editor: Jack R. Censer
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Table of Contents:
- Contents: In their words
- Introduction
- (The Three Principles of the People). Selections from Lecture 4 / Sun Yat-sen, San Min Chu I
- The path that led me to Leninism / Ho Chi Minh
- The discovery of India, Selections from chapter 10 / Jawaharlal Nehru
- Frantz Fanon, "Algeria unveiled" (extracts) in A dying colonialism / Frantz Fanon
- "Diagnosing an illness" Chapter 1, Occidentosis: a plague from the West / Jalal Al-i Ahmand
- "Society and ideology" selections from chapter 3, Consciencism: philosophy and ideology for decolonization / Kwame Nkrumah
- Part II: Imperialism and nationalism
- Introduction
- Contested hegemony: The Great War and the Afro-Asian assault on the civilizing mission ideology / Michael Adas
- The world of history and the world-as-history: twentieth century theories of imperialism / Patrick Wolfe
- "The Revolt against the West", selections from chapter 6, An introduction to contemporary history / Geoffrey Barraclough
- "ʹMy ambition is much higher than independenceʹ: US power, the UN world, the nation-state, and their critics" / John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan
- Empire preservʹd: how the Americans put anti-Communism before anti-imperialism / William Roger Louis and Ronald Robinson
- The troubled history of partition / Radha Kumar
- Part III: Regions and themes
- Introduction
- "Donʹt Paint Nationalism Red!" national revolution and socialist anti-imperialism / Ronald Grigor Suny
- Islamic renewal and the ʹFailure of the Westʹ / John O. Voll
- The dialectics of decolonization: nationalism and labor movements in postwar French Africa / Frederick Cooper
- Social construction of idealized images of women in colonial Korea: the "New Woman" versus "Motherhood" / Jiweon Shin
- National divisions in Indochinaʹs decolonization / Stein Tnnesson
- Colonial formations and deformations: Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam / Bruce Cumings -