Nationalism in Asia and Africa

Herausgeber: Kedourie, Elie

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An unusual group of 23 writings, mostly pre-World War II, by nationalists mostly unfamiliar to American readers. The editor thumbnails them in his febrile, quirky, eruditely digressive and very long introduction. In some cases, however - Koraes the nineteenth-century Greek nationalist, Gandhi, the Taipings - key figures get much more than a thumbnail. Kedourie argues with close if erratic reasoning against prevalent conceptions of Third World nationalism (as a reaction to economic imperialism, development needs, or alien rule), preferring a combination germ theory and frustrated-elite explanation. Islamic and Black African documents illuminate his point that nationalism co-opts religion. The "search for a past" to amplify and justify nationalist sentiments is displayed by Indian and Turkish writers, as well as Blyden's 1871 demonstration of the fabulous accomplishments of ancient Negroes. Violence emerges as a third theme in, e.g., the memoir of Chanekar, an Indian assassin, and a lengthy Fanon extract. Other African selections include a remarkable description of rites and oaths by a Mau Mau leader and a manifesto of Nkrumah's student society. Nationalism in power is represented by an excerpt from a 1930's Japanese manual for teachers. Apart from Fanon and Blyden, the only "standards" are Sun Yat-Sen and Garvey, plus three Bolshevik position papers which somewhat compensate for Kedourie's scanty treatment of the opposition between anti-capitalists nationalism and class-struggle socialism. It's an odd book, not "comprehensive" in any sense, but potentially worthwhile for industrious students of history and ideology. (Kirkus Reviews)

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1974
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 150mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 889g
• ISBN-13: 9780714630465
• ISBN-10: 0714630462
• Artikelnr.: 22022488

Autorenporträt

Elie Kedourie

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Report on the Present State of Civilization in Greece 2.
The Ideal of Nationalism: Three Currents of Thought 3. The Restoration of
Turkish History 4. The Study of Indian History 5. The Idea of Pakistan 6.
The Negro in Ancient History 7. The Contribution of Ethiopia-Nubia and of
Egypt to Civilization 8. The Resurrection of the Negro 9. Arabism 10. The
Principle of Nationalism 11. The National Entity of Japan and the Japanese
Subject 12. Islam and Nationalism 13. Hinduism and Indian Nationalism 14.
The Moral Poverty of India and Native Thoughts on the Present
British-Indian Policy 15. The Pan-African Movement 16. The Circle 17.
Imprisonment and Execution of Ibrahim Nassif El Wardany 18. The Making of a
Terrorist: From the Autobiography of Damodar Hari Chapekar 19. The Mau Mau
Oath 20. A Messianic Creed from the Congo 21. The Mass Movement 23. Theses
of the Second Congress of the Communist International on the National and
Colonial Questions 540 24. Nationalism Outside Europe 25. Social Revolution
and the East