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Voices of decolonization

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) and index.

Series
The Bedford series in history and culture, Bedford series in history and culture
Copyright Date
2015

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
325.3
Library of Congress
JV151 .S44 2014, JV151.S44 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 190 pages
Number of pages
190

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26887672M
Internet Archive
voicesofdecoloni0000shep
ISBN 10
145761815X
ISBN 13
9781457618154
LCCN
2015452149
OCLC/WorldCat
889945362

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