Voices of decolonization
Subtitle: a brief history with documents
By: Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University
Series: The Bedford series in history and culture; Bedford series in history and culture
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781457618154
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Tertiärbereich; Sources; History; Decolonization; Geschichtsunterricht
Description: Contains primary source material.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) and index.
Table of contents: title: PART ONE. Introduction: Decolonization, from unimaginable to Inevitable; title: What Is decolonization?; title: The varieties of imperialism; title: Interwar empires: Crisis and consolidation, 1918; title: 1937; title: World War II: Decolonization becomes imaginable; title: New international connections; title: European efforts to reinvent overseas colonialism; title: The Cold War, local collaborators, and the slowing pace of change; title: The rise of anticolonial radicalism; title: The international politics of decolonization; title: Algeria's decolonization; title: The legacies of decolonization; title: PART TWO. The documents; title: 1. 1945; title: 1947: Decolonization becomes imaginable; title: 1. Winston Churchill, "Hands off the British Empire," December 31, 1944; title: 2. United Nations, United Nations Charter: Preamble and Declaration concerning non-autonomous territories, June 26, 1945; title: 3. Ho Chi Minh, Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, September 2, 1945; title: 4. An appeal of the Vietnamese Bishops in favor of the independence of their country, September 23, 1945; title: 2. Defining new international connections; title: 5. Fifth Pan-African Congress, The challenge to the colonial powers, 1945; title: 6. UNESCO, The Statement on race, July 1950; title: 7. Alfred Sauvy, three Worlds, one planet, August 14, 1952; title: 8. First Afro-Asian conference, final communique, April 24, 1955; title: 9. Richard Wright, The color curtain: A report on the Bandung Conference, 1956; title: 10. Joseph Kirira and Josiah Kariuki, Song of Africa (Kenyan song), 1957; title: 3. From possibilities of independence to expectations of liberation; title: 11. Song for Murang'a Women (Kenyan song), ca. 1950; title: 12. Historical survey of the origins and growth of Mau Mau, 1950, 1960; title: 13. Historical survey of the origins and growth of Mau Mau, 1952, 1960; title: 14. Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt's liberation: The philosophy of the revolution, 1955; title: 15. The Shin Bet, The minorities in Israel, February 26, 1958; title: 16. Georgios Grivas, Report addressed to Michail Christodolou Mouskos, May 23, 1955; title: 17. Oath of the National Organization of Cypriot combatants, 1955; title: 4. The triumph of anticolonialism; title: 18. Mohammed Dib, The fire, 1954; title: 19. National Liberation Front, Proclamation, November 1, 1954; title: 20. Francois Mitterrand, Speech in response to FLN actions, November 12, 1954; title: 21. Slimane Azem, Locust, leave my country (Berber song), 1955; title: 22. Muslim population of Tebessa, Letter to Robert Lacoste, July 1956; title: 23. Rene Massigli, French Intelligence analysis of British public opinion on the Algerian conflict, December 1956; title: 24. Charles de Gaulle, Presidential press conference, April 11, 1961; title: 25. Frantz Fanon, The wretched of the Earth, 1961; title: 26. Visitor, Lift up the torch of United Africa, April 12, 1958; title: 27. Eric Williams, Massa Day done, March 22, 1961; title: 5. The contagion of independence; title: 28. Conscience Africaine, Manifesto for Belgian Congo, July 1956; title: 29. ABAKO, Counter Manifesto for Belgian Congo, August 23, 1956; title: 30. Harold Macmillan, "Wind of change" Speech, February 3, 1960; title: 31. Ingrid Jonker, The child who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga, 1960; title: 32. United Nations General Assembly, Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples, December 14, 1960; title: 33. Alvim Pereira, ten principles, 1961; title: 34. Celina Simango, Speech at the International Women's Congress in Moscow, June 1963; title: 35. Amilcar Cabral, anonymous soldiers for the United Nations, December 12, 1962; title: 36. Zhou Enlai, Conversation with S.V. Chervonenko, April 20, 1965; title: 37. Fayez A. Sayegh, Zionist colonialism in Palestine, 1965; title: 38. Claudia Jones, The Caribbean community in Britain, 1964; title: 39. Kwame Nkrumah, neo-colonialism: The last stage of imperialism, 1965; title: APPENDIXES; title: A chronology of the era of decolonization (1937; title: 1965); title: Questions for consideration.