Voices of decolonization : a brief history with documents / Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University.

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Shepard, Todd, 1969- [Browse]
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Book
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English
Published/​Created
  • Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, [2015]
  • ©2015
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xv, 190 pages : maps ; 21 cm.

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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) and index.
    Contents
    • PART ONE Introduction: Decolonization, from Unimaginable to Inevitable
    • What Is Decolonization?
    • The Varieties of Imperialism
    • Interwar Empires: Crisis and Consolidation, 1918
    • 1937
    • World War II: Decolonization Becomes Imaginable
    • New International Connections
    • European Efforts to Reinvent Overseas Colonialism
    • The Cold War, Local Collaborators, and the Slowing Pace of Change
    • The Rise of Anticolonial Radicalism
    • The International Politics of Decolonization
    • Algeria's Decolonization
    • The Legacies of Decolonization
    • PART TWO The Documents
    • 1. 1945
    • 1947: Decolonization Becomes Imaginable
    • 1. Winston Churchill, "Hands Off the British Empire," December 31, 1944
    • 2. United Nations, United Nations Charter: Preamble and Declaration concerning Non-autonomous Territories, June 26, 1945
    • 3. Ho Chi Minh, Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, September 2, 1945
    • 4. An Appeal of the Vietnamese Bishops in Favor of the Independence of Their Country, September 23, 1945
    • 2. Defining New International Connections
    • 5. Fifth Pan-African Congress, The Challenge to the Colonial Powers, 1945
    • 6. UNESCO, The Statement on Race, July 1950
    • 7. Alfred Sauvy, Three Worlds, One Planet, August 14, 1952
    • 8. First Afro-Asian Conference, Final Communique, April 24, 1955
    • 9. Richard Wright, The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference, 1956
    • 10. Joseph Kirira and Josiah Kariuki, Song of Africa (Kenyan Song), 1957
    • 3. From Possibilities of Independence to Expectations of Liberation
    • 11. Song for Murang'a Women (Kenyan Song), ca. 1950
    • 12. Historical Survey of the Origins and Growth of Mau Mau, 1950, 1960
    • 13. Historical Survey of the Origins and Growth of Mau Mau, 1952, 1960
    • 14. Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt's Liberation: The Philosophy of the Revolution, 1955
    • 15. The Shin Bet, The Minorities in Israel, February 26, 1958
    • 16. Georgios Grivas, Report Addressed to Michail Christodolou Mouskos, May 23, 1955
    • 17. Oath of the National Organization of Cypriot Combatants, 1955
    • 4. The Triumph of Anticolonialism
    • 18. Mohammed Dib, The Fire, 1954
    • 19. National Liberation Front, Proclamation, November 1, 1954
    • 20. Francois Mitterrand, Speech in Response to FLN Actions, November 12, 1954
    • 21. Slimane Azem, Locust, Leave My Country (Berber Song), 1955
    • 22. Muslim Population of Tebessa, Letter to Robert Lacoste, July 1956
    • 23. Rene Massigli, French Intelligence Analysis of British Public Opinion on the Algerian Conflict, December 1956
    • 24. Charles de Gaulle, Presidential Press Conference, April 11, 1961
    • 25. Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, 1961
    • 26. Visitor, Lift Up the Torch of United Africa, April 12, 1958
    • 27. Eric Williams, Massa Day Done, March 22, 1961
    • 5. The Contagion of Independence
    • 28. Conscience Africaine, Manifesto for Belgian Congo, July 1956
    • 29. ABAKO, Counter Manifesto for Belgian Congo, August 23, 1956
    • 30. Harold Macmillan, "Wind of Change" Speech, February 3, 1960
    • 31. Ingrid Jonker, The Child Who Was Shot Dead by Soldiers at Nyanga, 1960
    • 32. United Nations General Assembly, Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, December 14, 1960
    • 33. Alvim Pereira, Ten Principles, 1961
    • 34. Celina Simango, Speech at the International Women's Congress in Moscow, June 1963
    • 35. Amilcar Cabral, Anonymous Soldiers for the United Nations, December 12, 1962
    • 36. Zhou Enlai, Conversation with S. V. Chervonenko, April 20, 1965
    • 37. Fayez A. Sayegh, Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, 1965
    • 38. Claudia Jones, The Caribbean Community in Britain, 1964
    • 39. Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, 1965
    • APPENDIXES
    • A Chronology of the Era of Decolonization (1937
    • 1965)
    • Questions for Consideration.
    ISBN
    • 9781457618154
    • 145761815X
    LCCN
    2015452149
    OCLC
    889945362
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