Voices of decolonization : a brief history with documents / Todd Shepard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shepard, Todd, 1969- author, compiler.

Series:

Bedford series in history and culture

The Bedford series in history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization--History.

Decolonization.

History.

Decolonization--History--Sources.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

xv, 190 pages : maps ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston ; New York : Bedford/St. Martin's, [2014]

Contents:

Part 1 Introduction: Decolonization, from Unimaginable to Inevitable 1

What Is Decolonization? 8

The Varieties of Imperialism 13

Interwar Empires: Crisis and Consolidation, 1918-1937 15

World War II: Decolonization Becomes Imaginable 20

New International Connections 22

European Efforts to Reinvent Overseas Colonialism 23

The Cold War, Local Collaborators, and the Slowing Pace of Change 26

The Rise of Anticolonial Radicalism 29

The International Politics of Decolonization 32

Algeria's Decolonization 33

The Legacies of Decolonization 39

Part 2 The Documents 43

1 1945-1947: Decolonization Becomes Imaginable 45

1 Winston Churchill, "Hands Off the British Empire," December 31, 1944 45

2 United Nations, United Nations Charter: Preamble and Declaration concerning Non-autonomous Territories, June 26, 1945 46

3 Ho Chi Minh, Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, September 2, 1945 49

4 An Appeal of the Vietnamese Bishops in Favor of the Independence of Their Country, September 23, 1945 52

2 Defining New International Connections 54

5 Fifth Pan-African Congress, The Challenge to the Colonial Powers, 1945 54

6 UNESCO, The Statement on Race, July 1950 55

7 Alfred Sauvy, Three Worlds, One Planet, August 14, 1952 60

8 First Afro-Asian Conference, Final Communiqué, April 24, 1955 62

9 Richard Wright, The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference, 1956 67

10 Joseph Kirira and Josiah Kariuki, Song of Africa (Kenyan Song), 1957 70

3 From Possibilities of Independence to Expectations of Liberation 73

11 Song for Murang'a Women (Kenyan Song), ca. 1950 73

12 Historical Survey of the Origins and Growth of Mau Mau, 1950, 1960 75

13 Historical Survey of the Origins and Growth of Mau Mau, 1952, 1960 77

14 Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt's Liberation: The Philosophy of the Revolution, 1955 79

15 The Shin Bet, The Minorities in Israel, February 26, 1958 84

16 Georgios Grivas, Report Addressed to Michail Christodolou Mouskos, May 23, 1955 89

17 Oath of the National Organization of Cypriot Combatants, 1955 92

4 The Triumph of Anticolonialism 94

18 Mohammed Dib, The Fire, 1954 94

19 National liberation Front, Proclamation, November 1, 1954 96

20 Francois Mitterrand, Speech in Response to FLN Actions, November 12, 1954 101

21 Slimane Azem, Locust, Leave My Country (Berber Song), 1955 103

22 Muslim Population of Tébessa, Letter to Robert Lacoste, July 1956 105

23 René Massigli, French Intelligence Analysis of British Public Opinion on the Algerian Conflict, December 1956 106

24 Charles de Gaulle, Presidential Press Conference, April 11, 1961 109

25 Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, 1961 113

26 Visitor, Lift Up the Torch of United Africa, April 12, 1958 120

27 Eric Williams, Massa Day Done, March 22, 1961 124

5 The Contagion of Independence 130

28 Conscience Africaine, Manifesto for Belgian Congo, July 1956 130

29 ABAKO, Counter Manifesto for Belgian Congo, August 23, 1956 135

30 Harold Macmillan, "Wind of Change" Speech, February 3, 1960 138

31 Ingrid Jonker, The Child Who Was Shot Dead by Soldiers at Nyanga, 1960 141

32 United Nations General Assembly, Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, December 14, 1960 143

33 Alvim Pereira, Ten Principles, 1961 146

34 Celina Simango, Speech at the International Women's Congress in Moscow, June 1963 148

35 Amilcar Cabral, Anonymous Soldiers for the United Nations, December 12, 1962 150

36 Zhou Enlai, Conversation with S. V. Chervonenko, April 20, 1965 153

37 Fayez A. Sayegh, Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, 1965 156

38 Claudia Jones, The Caribbean Community in Britain, 1964 160

39 Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, 1965 164.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) and index.

ISBN:

9781457618154

145761815X

OCLC:

889945362