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Decolonization : perspectives from now and then / edited by Prasenjit Duara.
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English
Published/Created
London ; New York : Routledge, 2004, ©2003.
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xvi, 312 pages : map ; 24 cm
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Decolonization
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Imperialism
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Postcolonialism
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Rewriting histories
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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.
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ISBN
0415248418 ((pbk.))
9780415248419 ((pbk.))
041524840X
9780415248402
9780203485521
0203485521
LCCN
2003013089
OCLC
52458908
International Article Number
9780415248419
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