Decolonization : perspectives from now and then / Decolonisation : Perspectives from now and then edited by Prasenjit Duara. - xvi, 312 pages : map ; 24 cm. - Re-writing histories . - Rewriting histories. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

"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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Decolonization
Imperialism
Postcolonialism
Social change.

JV185 / .D43 2003

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