Decolonization: Perspectives from Now and Then

331 Pages·2004·2.578 MB·English

by  Prasenjit Duara (ed.)

DECOLONIZATION
The process of decolonization which started after World War I utterly
reshaped the world. Rather than occurring as a coherent event, decolo-
nization varied from country to country in its shape and duration, and
has been evaluated in many different ways over time. But is decoloniza-
tion complete? What replaces former colonial controls after
independence? Are Western historical frameworks adequate to describe
decolonization?
Decolonizationbrings together the most cutting-edge thinking by major
historians of decolonization, including both analytical articles by
contemporary historians, and writings by statesmen and intellectual
leaders of the decolonization movement such as Ho Chi Minh and
Jawaharlal Nehru. The chapters in this volume present a move away
from both the older Western as well as nationalist views of decoloniza-
tion, toweards a deeper historical view of it as a wider and still
unfinished process. This is a groundbreaking survey of a subject central
to modern global history.
Prasenjit Duara is Professor of History and East Asian Studies at the
University of Chicago. He is the author of Culture, Power and the State:
Rural Society in North China, 1900–1942 (1988), Rescuing History from the
Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China (1997) and Sovereignty and
Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern(2003).
Series editor Jack R. Censer is Professor of History at George Mason
University.
REWRITING HISTORIES
Series editor: Jack R. Censer
ATLANTIC AMERICAN SOCIETIES
From Columbus through Abolition
Edited by J. R. McNeill and Alan Karras
DECOLONIZATION
Perspectives from now and then
Edited by Prasenjit Duara
DIVERSITYAND UNITYIN EARLYNORTH AMERICA
Edited by Philip Morgan
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Recent Debates and Controversies
Edited by Gary Kates
GENDER AND AMERICAN HISTORYSINCE 1890
Edited by Barbara Melosh
GLOBALFEMINISMS SINCE 1945
Edited by Bonnie G. Smith
THE HOLOCAUST
Origins, Implementation, Aftermath
Edited by Omer Bartov
THE INDUSTRIALREVOLUTION AND WORK IN NINETEENTH-
CENTURYEUROPE
Edited by Lenard R. Berlanstein
THE ISRAEL/PALESTINE QUESTION
Edited by Ilan Pappe
NAZISM AND GERMAN SOCIETY, 1933–1945
Edited by David Crew
THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR
An International History
Edited by David Painter and Melvyn Leffler
REFORMATION TO REVOLUTION
Edited by Margo Todd
THE RENAISSANCE
Italy and Abroad
Edited by John Jeffries Martin
THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1989
Edited by Vladimir Tismaneanu
SEGREGATION AND APARTHEID IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY
SOUTH AFRICA
Edited by William Beinart and Saul Dubow
SOCIETYAND CULTURE IN THE SLAVE SOUTH
Edited by J. William Harris
STALINISM
New Directions
Edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick
TWENTIETH-CENTURYCHINA
New Approaches
Edited by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

DECOLONIZATION
Perspectives from now and then
Edited by Prasenjit Duara
First published 2004
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CONTENTS
Series Page ii
Acknowledgements xi
Notes on contributors xiv
Map of Africa, Asia and Europe after World War II xvii
1 Introduction: the decolonization of Asia and
Africa in the twentieth century 1
PRASENJIT DUARA
Part I
In their own words
2 San min chu I(The three principles of the people):
selections from Lecture 4 21
SUN YAT-SEN
3 The path that led me to Leninism 29
HO CHI MINH
4 The importance of the national idea: changes
necessary in India 32
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
5 Algeria unveiled 42
FRANTZ FANON
6 Diagnosing an illness 56
JALAL AL-I AHMAD
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7 Society and ideology 64
KWAME NKRUMAH
Part II
Imperialism and nationalism
8 Contested hegemony: the Great War and the
Afro-Asian assault on the civilizing mission
ideology 78
MICHAEL ADAS
9 The world of history and the world-as-history:
twentieth-century theories of imperialism 101
PATRICK WOLFE
10 The revolt against the West 118
GEOFFREY BARRACLOUGH
11 My ambition is much higher than independence’:
US power, the UN world, the nation-state, and
their critics 131
JOHN D. KELLY AND MARTHA KAPLAN
12 Empire preserv’d: how the Americans put anti-
communism before anti-imperialism 152
WILLIAM ROGER LOUIS AND RONALD ROBINSON
13 The troubled history of partition 162
RADHA KUMAR
Part III
Regions and themes
14 ` Don’t paint nationalism red!’: national revolution
and socialist anti-imperialism 176
RONALD GRIGOR SUNY
15 Islamic renewal and the ‘failure of the West’ 199
JOHN O. VOLL
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16 The dialectics of decolonization: nationalism and
labour movements in post-war French Africa 218
FREDERICK COOPER
17 Social construction of idealized images of women
in colonial Korea: the ‘new woman’ versus
‘motherhood’ 239
JIWEON SHIN
18 National divisions in Indochina’s decolonization 253
STEIN TØNNESSON
19 Colonial formations and deformations: Korea, Taiwan
and Vietnam 278
BRUCE CUMINGS
Index 299
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