Title Decolonization and the Cold War : negotiating independence / edited by Leslie James and Elisabeth Leake

Published London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015 ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 305 pages) : maps Series New approaches to international history New approaches to international history. Contents Foreword / Odd Arne Westad -- Introduction / Leslie James and Elisabeth Leake -- Part I: Developing the nation: economics, modernity and the 'state project.' "Fantastic quantities of food grains": Cold War visions and agrarian fantasies in independent India / Benjamin Siegel -- "The life and death of our republic": modernization, agricultural development and the peasantry in the Mekong Delta in the long 1970s / Simon Toner -- Export processing zones, special economic zones and the long march of capitalist development policies during the Cold War / Patrick Neveling -- Part II: Intellectual assertions in the anti-colonial era. Class struggle and self-determination at political affairs: an intellectual history of communist anti-colonialism in the United States, 1945-1960 / John Munro -- "A unique little country": Lebanese exceptionalism, pro-Americanism and the meanings of independence in the writings of Charles Malik, c. 1946-1962 / Andrew Arsan -- Part III: Contesting heritage and identification. The Malayan Communist Party and the Malayan Chinese Association: internationalism and nationalism in Chinese overseas political participation, c. 1920-1960 / Anna Belogurova -- Negotiating Russian imperial Aryanism: Soviet Oriental studies in the Cold War / Hanna Jansen -- Part IV: (Re)conceiving sovereignty and statehood. Grounding ideologies: archaeology, decolonization and the Cold War in Egypt / William Carruthers -- A "commonwealth moment" in South Asian decolonization / Daniel Haines -- Sovereignty in the Congo Crisis / Ryan M. Irwin -- Malcolm X in France, 1964-1965: anti-imperialism and the politics of travel control in the Cold War Era / Moshik Temkin -- From foreign concessions to special economic zones: decolonization and foreign investment in twentieth-century Asia / Christopher Miller -- Part V: defending the state: intelligence and violence. Archives, intelligence and secrecy: the Cold War and the end of the British Empire / Caroline Elkins -- Tinker, tailor, soldier, subversive: India, Pakistan and the politics of Cold War intelligence / Paul M. McGarr Summary "The Cold War and decolonization transformed the twentieth century world. This volume brings together an international line-up of experts to explore how these transformations took place and expand on some of the latest threads of analysis to help inform our understanding of the links between the two phenomena. The book begins by exploring ideas of modernity, development, and economics as Cold War and postcolonial projects and goes on to look at the era's intellectual history and investigate how emerging forms of identity fought for supremacy. Finally, the contributors question ideas of sovereignty and state control that move beyond traditional Cold War narratives. Decolonization and the Cold War emphasizes new approaches by drawing on various methodologies, regions, themes, and interdisciplinary work, to shed new light on two topics that are increasingly important to historians of the twentieth century"--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Online resource; title from electronic title page (Ebsco, viewed on February 3, 2021) Subject World politics -- 1945-1989. Cold War. Decolonization -- History -- 20th century Autonomy and independence movements -- History -- 20th century Postcolonialism -- History -- 20th century Anti-imperialist movements -- History -- 20th century Social change -- History -- 20th century Economic development -- History -- 20th century Intellectual life -- History -- 20th century 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000. Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000. The Cold War. HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th century. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. Anti-imperialist movements Autonomy and independence movements Decolonization Economic development Intellectual life Postcolonialism Social change World politics Entkolonialisierung Ost-West-Konflikt Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author James, Leslie, 1980- editor. Leake, Elisabeth, editor. ISBN 9781474210591 1474210597 9781472571229 1472571223 9781472571212 1472571215

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