Decolonization : perspectives from now and then / edited by Prasenjit Duara.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Routledge, 2004, ©2003.
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xvi, 312 pages : map ; 24 cm

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      Series
      Rewriting histories [More in this series]
      Summary note
      'Decolonization' collects challenging perspectives on the process of decolonization in the 20th century, including writings by Ho Chi-Minh & Nehru. This is a move away from Western analysis of the phenomenon, towards the angle of vision of the former colonies.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
      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
      • 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
      • "'My ambition is much higher than independence': US power, the UN world, the nation-state, and their critics" / John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan
      • Empire preserv'd: 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
      • "Don't Paint Nationalism Red!" national revolution and socialist anti-imperialism / Ronald Grigor Suny
      • Islamic renewal and the 'Failure of the West' / 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 Indochina's decolonization / Stein Tnnesson
      • Colonial formations and deformations: Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam / Bruce Cumings
      • Index.
      ISBN
      • 0415248418 ((pbk.))
      • 9780415248419 ((pbk.))
      • 041524840X
      • 9780415248402
      • 9780203485521
      • 0203485521
      LCCN
      2003013089
      OCLC
      52458908
      International Article Number
      • 9780415248419
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