Decolonization: Perspectives from Now and Then

by Duara,Prasenjit

• ISBN13: 9780415248402
• ISBN10: 041524840X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134537075
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The process of decolonization which started after World War I utterly reshaped the world and has extended the focus of historians to a global perspective. Rather than being a coherent event, decolonization varied from country to country in its shape and duration, and has been evaluated differently over time. But is decolonization complete? What replaces former colonial controls after independence? Are Western historical frameworks adequate to describe decolonization?Decolonization is a collecion of revisionist writings on the subject. It brings together the most cutting edge thinking by major historians of decolonization, including previously unpublished essays, and writings by leaders of decolonizing countries, including Ho Chi-minh and Jawaharlal Nehru. The chapters in this volume present a move away from Western analysis of decolonization, towards the angle of vision of the former colonies. This is a groundbreaking study of a subject central to recent global history.

Table of Contents

Series Page	ii
Acknowledgements	xi
Notes on contributors	xiv
Map of Africa, Asia and Europe after World War II	xvii
Introduction: the decolonization of Asia and Africa in the twentieth century	1	(20)
Prasenjit Duara
Part I In their own words
San min chu I (The three principles of the people): selections from Lecture 4	21	(8)
Sun Yat-Sen
The path that led me to Leninism	29	(3)
Ho Chi Minh
The importance of the national idea: changes necessary in India	32	(10)
Jawaharlal Nehru
Algeria unveiled	42	(14)
Frantz Fanon
Diagnosing an illness	56	(8)
Jalal Al-I Ahmad
Society and ideology	64	(14)
Kwame Nkrumah
Part II Imperialism and nationalism
Contested hegemony: the Great War and the Afro-Asian assault on the civilizing mission ideology	78	(23)
Michael Adas
The world of history and the world-as-history: twentieth-century theories of imperialism	101	(17)
Patrick Wolfe
The revolt against the West	118	(13)
Geoffrey Barraclough
My ambition is much higher than independence': US power, the UN world, the nation-state, and their critics	131	(21)
John D. Kelly
Martha Kaplan
Empire preserv'd: how the Americans put anti-communism before anti-imperialism	152	(10)
William Roger Louis
Ronald Robinson
The troubled history of partition	162	(14)
Radha Kumar
Part III Regions and themes
`Don't paint nationalism red!': national revolution and socialist anti-imperialism	176	(23)
Ronald Grigor Suny
Islamic renewal and the 'failure of the West'	199	(19)
John O. Voll
The dialectics of decolonization: nationalism and labour movements in post-war French Africa	218	(21)
Frederick Cooper
Social construction of idealized images of women in colonial Korea: the 'new woman' versus 'motherhood'	239	(14)
Jiweon Shin
National divisions in Indochina's decolonization	253	(25)
Stein Tonnesson
Colonial formations and deformations: Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam	278	(21)
Bruce Cumings
Index	299