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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Map of Africa, Asia and Europe after World War II -- 1. Introduction: the decolonization of Asia and Africa in the twentieth century / Prasenjit Duara -- 2. San min chu I (The three principles of the people): selections from Lecture 4 / Sun Yat-Sen -- 3. The path that led me to Leninism / Ho Chi Minh -- 4. The importance of the national idea: changes necessary in India / Jawaharlal Nehru -- 5. Algeria unveiled / Frantz Fanon -- 6. Diagnosing an illness / Jalal Al-I Ahmad -- 7. Society and ideology / Kwame Nkrumah -- 8. Contested hegemony: the Great War and the Afro-Asian assault on the civilizing mission ideology / Michael Adas -- 9. The world of history and the world-as-history: twentieth-century theories of imperialism / Patrick Wolfe -- 10. The revolt against the West / Geoffrey Barraclough -- 11. My ambition is much higher than independence: US power, the UN world, the nation-state, and their critics / John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan -- 12. Empire preserv'd: how the Americans put anti-communism before anti-imperialism / William Roger Louis and Ronald Robinson -- 13. The troubled history of partition / Radha Kumar -- 14. 'Don't paint nationalism red!': national revolution and socialist anti-imperialism / Ronald Grigor Suny -- 15. Islamic renewal and the 'failure of the west' / John O. Voll -- 16. The dialectics of decolonization: nationalism and labour movements in post-war French Africa / Frederick Cooper -- 17. Social construction of idealized images of women in colonial Korea: the 'new woman' versus 'motherhood' / Jiweon Shin -- 18. National divisions in Indochima's decolonization / Stein Tonnesson -- 19. Colonial formations and deformations: Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam / Bruce Cumings.

"The process of decolonization which started after World War I utterly reshaped the world and extended the focus of historians to a global perspective. Rather than presenting a coherent event, decolonization varied from country to country in its shape and duration, and has been evaluated differently over time. But is decolonization complete? What replaces former colonial controls after independence? Are Western historical frameworks adequate to describe decolonization?Decolonization brings together the most cutting edge thinking by major historians of decolonization, including previously unpublished essays, and writings by leaders of decolonizing countries, including Ho Chi-minh and Jawaharlal Nehru. The chapters in this volume present a move away from Western analysis of decolonization, towards the angle of vision of the former colonies. This is a groundbreaking study of a subject central to recent global history."--Publisher description.

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