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

• Autore: Duara Prasenjit
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2003; London : , : Routledge, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 312 pages) : map
• Disciplina: 325/.3
• Soggetto topico: Decolonization; Imperialism; Postcolonialism; Social change
• Altri autori: StewartSheila
• Persona (resp. second.): DuaraPrasenjit
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Decolonization
• ISBN: 9780415248402; 041524840X; 9781134537082; 1134537085; 9781280036323; 128003632X; 9780203485521; 0203485521; 9780203598597; 0203598598; 9781134537075; 1134537077
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910974528103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Rewriting Histories