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Decolonization : perspectives from now and then / edited by Prasenjit Duara.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duara, Prasenjit.
- Series:
- Rewriting Histories
- Rewriting histories Decolonization
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Decolonization.
- Imperialism.
- Postcolonialism.
- Social change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 312 pages) : map
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2003.
- London : Routledge, 2003
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Brings together the most cutting edge thinking by major historians of decolonization to create a groundbreaking study of a subject central to recent global history.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series Page; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; 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 imperialismThe 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 Indochina's decolonization; Colonial formations and deformations: Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam; Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 9780415248402
- 041524840X
- 9781134537082
- 1134537085
- 9781280036323
- 128003632X
- 9780203485521
- 0203485521
- 9780203598597
- 0203598598
- 9781134537075
- 1134537077
- OCLC:
- 54494417
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