The Ideological Scramble for Africa : How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945-1966 /

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"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gerits, Frank (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Nkrumah, Kwame, > 1909-1972.
Nkrumah, Kwame, > 1909-1972 > Political and social views.
Nkrumah, Kwame, > 1909-1972 > Influence.
World politics.
Postcolonialism.
Politics and government.
Political and social views.
Pan-Africanism.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Decolonization.
World politics > 1945-1989.
Pan-Africanism > History > 20th century.
Postcolonialism > Africa > History > 20th century.
Decolonization > Africa > History > 20th century.
Africa.
Africa > Politics and government > 1960-
Africa > Politics and government > 1945-1960.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : How African Liberation Shaped the International System
  • A Foreign Policy of the Mind, 1945-1954
  • Offering Hungry Minds a Better Development Project, 1955-1956
  • The Pan-African Path to Modernity, 1957-1958
  • Redefining Decolonization in the Sahara, 1959-1960
  • The Congo Crisis as the Litmus Test for Psychological Modernization, 1960-1961
  • Managing the Effects of Modernization, 1961-1963
  • The Struggle to Defeat Racial Modernity in South Africa and Rhodesia, 1963-1966
  • The Collapse of Anticolonial Modernization, 1963-1966
  • Conclusion : How Decolonization Made Our Times.

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