Decolonization
Subtitle: perspectives from now and then
By: edited by Prasenjit Duara.
Contributors: Duara, Prasenjit.
Series: Rewriting histories; Re-writing histories
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Decolonization.; Imperialism.; Postcolonialism.; Social change.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: value: Introduction: the decolonization of Asia and Africa in the twentieth century / Prasenjit Duara; value: Part I. In their own words; value: San min chu I (The three principles of the people): selections from lecture 4 / Sun Yat-sen; value: The path that led me to Leninism / Ho Chi Minh; value: The importance of the national ideal: changes necessary in India / Jawaharlal Nehru; value: Algeria unveiled / Frantz Fanon; value: Diagnosing an illness / Jalal Al-i Ahmad; value: Society and ideology / Kwame Nkrumah; value: Part II. Imperialism and nationalism; value: Contested hegemony: the Great War and the Afro-Asian assault on the civilizing mission ideology / Michael Adas; value: The world of history and the world-as-history: twentieth century theories of imperialism / Patrick Wolfe; value: The revolt against the West / Geoffrey Barraclough; value: My ambition is much higher than independence: US power, the UN world, the nation-state, and their critics / John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan; value: Empire preserv'd: how the Americans put anti-Communism before anti-imperialism  / William Roger Louis and Ronald Robinson; value: The troubled history of partition / Radha Kumar; value: Part III. Regions and themes; value: 'Don't paint nationalism red!': national revolution and socialist anti-imperialism / Ronald Grigor Suny; value: Islamic renewal and the 'failure of the West' / John O. Voll; value: The dialectics of decolonization: nationalism and labor movements in post-war French Africa / Frederick Cooper; value: Social construction of idealized images of women in colonial Korea: the 'new woman' versus 'motherhood' / Jiweon Shin; value: National divisions in Indochina's decolonization / Stein Tønnesson; value: Colonial formations and deformations: Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam / Bruce Cumings.