European Decolonization

European Decolonization

Thomas, Martin

Taylor & Francis Ltd

06/2007

574

Dura

Inglês

9780754625681

15 a 20 dias

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Contents: Series preface; Introduction; Part I Long-Term Perspectives: A comparative study of French and British decolonization, Tony Smith; Imperial hangovers: Belgium - the economics of decolonisation, Jean-Philippe Peemans; Fanon and Cabral: a contrast in theories of revolution for Africa, Robert Blackley; British decolonisation since 1945: a pattern or a puzzle?, John Darwin. Part II Post-War Problems and Confrontations: Militant response: the Dutch use of military force and the decolonization of the Dutch East Indies, 1945-50, Petra M.H. Groen; 'Our strike': equality, anticolonial politics and the 1947-48 railway strike in French West Africa, Frederick Cooper; Planned decolonization and its failure in British Africa, John Flint; Keeping India in the Commonwealth: British political and military aims, 1947-49, Anita Inder Singh. Part III Decolonization and Party Politics: Africa and the Labour government, 1945-51, Ronald Hyam; The colonial policies of the Mouvement Republicaine Populaire, 1944-45: from reform to reaction, Martin Thomas; Keeping change within bounds: aspects of colonial policy during the Churchill and Eden governments 1951-57, David Goldsworthy; Macmillan and the wind of change in Africa, 1957-60, Ritchie Ovendale. Part IV Decolonisation, Counter-Insurgency and Wars of Liberation: 'Iron claws on Malaya': the historiography of the Malayan Emergency, Karl Hack; Decolonisation, the colonial state and chieftaincy in the Gold Coast, Richard C. Crook; School wars: church, state and the death of the Congo, Patrick M. Boyle; People's war, state formation and revolution in Africa: a comparative analysis of Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and Angola, Patrick Chabal. Part V The Internationalization of Decolonization: China and the 1st Indochina war, 1950-54, Chen Jian; American attitudes toward decolonization in Africa, Steven Metz; Rethinking the cold war and decolonization: the grand strategy of the Algerian war for independence, Matthew Conne
CCP Central Committee;Anita Inder Singh;Lamine Gueye;Anthony Kirk-Greene;Ivory Coast;Chen Jian;Viet Minh Troops;Cora Ann Presley;Viet Minh Forces;David Goldsworthy;Colonial Administration;Frederick Cooper;Overseas Civil Service;Jean-Philippe Peemans;Commonwealth Relations Office;John Darwin;De Gaulle;John Flint;Gold Coast;Karl Hack;High Commission Territories;Matthew Connelly;Sir Gilbert Laithwaite;Patrick Chabal;Central African Federation;Patrick M. Boyle;Vice Versa;Petra M. H. Groen;North Western Vietnam;Richard C. Crook;Indo-China War;Ritchie Ovendale;CCP;Robert Blackey;Dutch Military Force;Ronald Hyam;Republican Military Force;Steven Metz;Chinese Military Advisers;Tony Smith;Cao Bang;Dong Khe;Decolonization Issue;Vietnamese Communists;Iron Claws