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The discovery of the Third World : decolonization and the rise of the new Left in France, c. 1950-1976 /

This book explores the emergence of 'Third Worldism' as a new intellectual movement during the era of decolonisation and the Cold War.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kalter, Christoph (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction: From "Discovery" to Historiography; 1.1. A Discovery and Its Consequences; 1.2. Periodization: The Third World and the Radical Left in the "Long 1960s"; 1.3. Unwritten History: The "Third World" as a Concept; 1.4. Not Only in the Hexagon: French Contemporary History, French Left; 1.5. From Algeria to Vietnam: The Third World, the Radical Left, and "1968"; 1.6. Constriction and Facilitation: The Cold War.
  • 1.7. Postcolonial France: Decolonization, Anticolonialism, and Debates on Colonialism1.8. Primary Sources; 1.9. Structure of this Book; 2 A New Concept of the World: The Third World in the Social Sciences and Politics; 2.1. A New Paradigm: The Social Sciences and the Third World in the 1950s; Formative Context and Plausible Reasons: Decolonization, the Cold War, and the Global Prosperity Gap; The Theoretical Core: Social Sciences, the Third World, and Modernization Theory; The Discovery of the Third World: Alfred Sauvy and the French Debate in the 1950s.
  • 2.2. Consolidation and Diversification: The Third World in the 1960s2.3. Three Worlds or Many Worlds? The Concept's Crisis in the 1970s and 1980s; 2.4. From Third World to One World? The 1990s and Globalization; 3 Conflicts, New Diversity, and Convergence: The New Radical Left in France; 3.1. Socialism, Communism, and the Ultra-Left in France after 1945; Hostile Proximity: Socialists and Communists; Beyond the Major Leftist Parties: The Ultra-Left; Attraction, Repulsion: Intellectuals and Marxism; 3.2. Ambivalences: The "Old" Left and the Colonial World.
  • Marxism, Colonialism, and AnticolonialismRepublic and Civilizing Mission: French Socialists and the Colonies; (Un)conditionally Anticolonial: The French Communists and the Colonies; 3.3. Revolution and Anticolonialism: The New Radical Left; "Triple Crisis": Hungary, Suez, and Algeria in 1956; The New Radical Left: Definition and Perspectives; Diffuse End: Third World and Radical Left in the 1970s; 4 "From the Résistance to Anticolonialism": The Politics of Memory in the New Radical Left; Prologue: May 8, 1945; Heroes and Victims: The French Master Narrative of the Postwar Period.
  • 4.1. Setting the Courses: Remembering World War II and Criticizing Colonialism in the Early Postwar Years (1946-1951)Of "Victims" and "Perpetrators": A French Role Reversal in the Indochina War; Nazi and Colonial Massacres: Oradour as a Transnational Memory Site in René Vautier; Civilization of Violence: Colonialism and Nazism in Aimé Césaire; 4.2. Like the Nazis? Like the Résistance? The Politics of Memory during the Algerian War (1954-1962); Truth and Testimony: The Basic Categories of the Oppositional Discourse on Algeria.