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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464088303321

Autore

Lee Christopher J.

Titolo

Making a world after empire : the Bandung moment and its political afterlives / / Christopher J. Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens : , : Ohio University Press, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

0-89680-468-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 p.)

Collana

Ohio University research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; ; number 11

Disciplina

327.1/16

Soggetti

Afro-Asian politics

Imperialism - History - 20th century

Decolonization - Asia - History - 20th century

Decolonization - Africa - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Asia Relations Africa

Africa Relations Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-383) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction: Between a Moment and an Era:The Origins and Afterlives of Bandung; Part 1: Framings: Concepts, Politics, History; Chapter 1: The Legacies of Bandung; Chapter 2: Contested Hegemony; Chapter 3: Modeling States and Sovereignty; Part 2: Alignments and Nonalignments: Movements, Projects, Outcomes; Chapter 4: Feminism, Solidarity, and Identity in the Age of Bandung; Chapter 5: Radio Cairo and the Decolonization of East Africa, 1953-64; Chapter 6: Mao in Zanzibar; Chapter 7: Working Ahead of Time; Chapter 8: Tricontinentalism in Question

Part 3: The Present: Predicaments, Practices, SpeculationChapter 9: China's Engagement with Africa; Chapter 10: Superpower Osama; Epilogue; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In April 1955, twenty-nine countries from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East came together for a diplomatic conference in Bandung, Indonesia, intending to define the direction of the postcolonial world.



Representing approximately two-thirds of the world's population, the Bandung conference occurred during a key moment of transition in the mid-twentieth century-amid the global wave of decolonization that took place after the Second World War and the nascent establishment of a new cold war world order in its wake. Participants such as Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Zhou

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Record Nr.

UNIORUON00099578

Autore

SOMMER, Ferdinand

Titolo

Hethiter und Hethitisch / Ferdinand Sommer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart, : Kohlhammer, 1947

Descrizione fisica

111 p. ; 25 cm

Disciplina

939.2

Soggetti

ITTITI - Storia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia