Decolonization and the Cold War : negotiating independence /

"The Cold War and decolonization transformed the twentieth century world. This volume brings together an international line-up of experts to explore how these transformations took place and expand on some of the latest threads of analysis to help inform our understanding of the links between th...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: James, Leslie, 1980- (Editor ), Leake, Elisabeth (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Colección:New approaches to international history.
Temas:
1900-1999
World politics > 1945-1989.
Cold War.
Decolonization > History > 20th century.
Autonomy and independence movements > History > 20th century.
Postcolonialism > History > 20th century.
Anti-imperialist movements > History > 20th century.
Social change > History > 20th century.
Economic development > History > 20th century.
Intellectual life > History > 20th century.
Politique mondiale > 1945-1989.
Guerre froide.
Décolonisation > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Autonomie et mouvements indépendantistes > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Postcolonialisme > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Anti-impérialisme > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Développement économique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000.
The Cold War.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Anti-imperialist movements
Autonomy and independence movements
Decolonization
Economic development
Intellectual life
Postcolonialism
Social change
World politics
Entkolonialisierung
Ost-West-Konflikt
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Odd Arne Westad
  • Introduction / Leslie James and Elisabeth Leake
  • Part I: Developing the nation: economics, modernity and the 'state project.' "Fantastic quantities of food grains": Cold War visions and agrarian fantasies in independent India / Benjamin Siegel
  • "The life and death of our republic": modernization, agricultural development and the peasantry in the Mekong Delta in the long 1970s / Simon Toner
  • Export processing zones, special economic zones and the long march of capitalist development policies during the Cold War / Patrick Neveling
  • Part II: Intellectual assertions in the anti-colonial era. Class struggle and self-determination at political affairs: an intellectual history of communist anti-colonialism in the United States, 1945-1960 / John Munro
  • "A unique little country": Lebanese exceptionalism, pro-Americanism and the meanings of independence in the writings of Charles Malik, c. 1946-1962 / Andrew Arsan
  • Part III: Contesting heritage and identification. The Malayan Communist Party and the Malayan Chinese Association: internationalism and nationalism in Chinese overseas political participation, c. 1920-1960 / Anna Belogurova
  • Negotiating Russian imperial Aryanism: Soviet Oriental studies in the Cold War / Hanna Jansen
  • Part IV: (Re)conceiving sovereignty and statehood. Grounding ideologies: archaeology, decolonization and the Cold War in Egypt / William Carruthers
  • A "commonwealth moment" in South Asian decolonization / Daniel Haines
  • Sovereignty in the Congo Crisis / Ryan M. Irwin
  • Malcolm X in France, 1964-1965: anti-imperialism and the politics of travel control in the Cold War Era / Moshik Temkin
  • From foreign concessions to special economic zones: decolonization and foreign investment in twentieth-century Asia / Christopher Miller
  • Part V: defending the state: intelligence and violence. Archives, intelligence and secrecy: the Cold War and the end of the British Empire / Caroline Elkins
  • Tinker, tailor, soldier, subversive: India, Pakistan and the politics of Cold War intelligence / Paul M. McGarr.

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