The first wave of decolonization / edited by Mark Thurner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thurner, Mark, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in global Latin America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization--America--History--19th century.

Decolonization.

Postcolonialism--America--History--19th century.

Postcolonialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

The global phenomenon of decolonization was born in the Americas in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The First Wave of Decolonization is the first volume in any language to describe and analyze the scope and meanings of decolonization during this formative period. It demonstrates that the pioneers of decolonization were not twentieth-century Frenchmen or Algerians but nineteenth-century Peruvians and Colombians. In doing so, it vastly expands the horizons of decolonization, conventionally understood to be a post-war development emanating from Europe. The result is a provocative, new understanding of the global history of decolonization.

Contents:

A brief conceptual history of "colonia" / Francisco Ortega

Decolonizing customs / Mark Thurner

Inventing Columbia/Colombia / Lina del Castillo

Race and revolution in Colombia, Haiti, and the United States / Marixa Lasso

Decolonizing Europe / James Sanders

Second slavery and decolonization in Brazil / Barbara Weinstein

The lost Italian connection / Federica Morelli

Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-00514-3

0-429-29028-4

9780429290282

OCLC:

1101966781