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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Gerits, Frank (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.