Frank Gerits

The Ideological Scramble for Africa

How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945-1966

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Produktbeschreibung

"After 1945 African nationalists were drawn into a battle for African hearts and minds. Rather than choose between East or West, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana promoted a vision of anticolonial modernity and competed with imperial, communist, and capitalist modernization schemes to prove the superiority of his plan for postcolonial order"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 161mm x 240mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9781501767913
• ISBN-10: 1501767917
• Artikelnr.: 69043275

Autorenporträt

Frank Gerits

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction:: How African Liberation Shaped the International System
1. A Foreign Policy of the Mind, 1945-1954
2. Offering Hungry Minds a Better Development Project, 1955-1956
3. The Pan-African Path to Modernity, 1957-1958
4. Redefining Decolonization in the Sahara, 1959-1960
5. The Congo Crisis as the Litmus Test for Psychological Modernization,
1960-1961
6. Managing the Effects of Modernization, 1961-1963
7. The Struggle to Defeat Racial Modernity in South Africa and Rhodesia,
1963-1966
8. The Collapse of Anticolonial Modernization, 1963-1966
Conclusion:: How Decolonization Made Our Times