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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974528103321

Autore

Duara Prasenjit

Titolo

Decolonization : perspectives from now and then / / edited by Prasenjit Duara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2003

London : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

9780415248402

041524840X

9781134537082

1134537085

9781280036323

128003632X

9780203485521

0203485521

9780203598597

0203598598

9781134537075

1134537077

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 312 pages) : map

Collana

Rewriting histories Decolonization

Altri autori (Persone)

StewartSheila

Disciplina

325/.3

Soggetti

Decolonization

Imperialism

Postcolonialism

Social change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.