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Decolonization and its Impact

Autor Shipway
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 ian 2008
Decolonization and its Impact is a ground-breaking comparative study of decolonization from before the Second World War to the early 1960s.
  • Compares key cases across the European colonial empires
  • Focuses on the process and impact of decolonization at the level of the 'late colonial state' and of colonial societies
  • Presents an original model of decolonization that seeks to reconcile imperial and nationalist perspectives
  • Engages with important theoretical approaches
  • Makes extensive reference to recent literature on the subject
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780631199670
ISBN-10: 0631199675
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 183 x 260 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

students of twentieth–century history, imperial history, decolonization, African or Asian history, third world politics, and international relations

Notă biografică

Martin Shipway is Lecturer in French Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of The Road to War: France and Vietnam, 1944-1947 (1996) and has written journal articles and book chapters on French colonial policy making and decolonization in Indochina, sub-Saharan Africa, Algeria and Madagascar, as well as on colonial discourse, psychology and photography, and on post-colonial memory.

Cuprins

Acknowledgements.

Maps.

Introduction: Decolonization in Comparative Perspective.

1 The Colonial State: Patterns of Rule, Habits of Mind.

2 Colonial Politics Before the Flood: Challenging the State, Imagining the Nation.

3 The Second World War and the 'First Wave' of Decolonization.

4 Imperial Designs and Nationalist Realities in Southeast Asia, 1945-1955.

5 Shifting Frameworks for Change: The Late Colonial State in Africa.

6 The Late Colonial State at War: Insurgency, Emergency and Terror.

7 Towards Self-Government: Patterns of Late Colonial African Politics, 1951-1957.

8 Wind of Change: Endgame in Colonial Africa, 1958-64.

9 Conclusion: The Impact of Decolonization.

Appendix: Dates of Independence of African States.

Bibliography.

Index


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Decolonization and its Impact is a ground-breaking comparative study of decolonization from before the Second World War to the early 1960s.