The Ideological Scramble for Africa : How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945-1966 /
"After 1945 African nationalists were drawn into a battle for African hearts and minds. Rather than choose between East or West, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana promoted a vision of anticolonial modernity and competed with imperial, communist, and capitalist modernization schemes to prove the superiorit...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca [New York] :
Cornell University Press,
2023.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "After 1945 African nationalists were drawn into a battle for African hearts and minds. Rather than choose between East or West, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana promoted a vision of anticolonial modernity and competed with imperial, communist, and capitalist modernization schemes to prove the superiority of his plan for postcolonial order"-- |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (318 pages): illustrations (black and white), maps ; |
ISBN: | 9781501767920 |