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"Voices of decolonization" was published by Bedford/St. Martin's in 2015 - mau, it has 190 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 190
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  • Pagination: xv, 190 pages

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"Voices of decolonization" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- PART ONE. Introduction: Decolonization, from unimaginable to Inevitable
  • 2- What Is decolonization?
  • 3- The varieties of imperialism
  • 4- Interwar empires: Crisis and consolidation, 1918
  • 5- 1937
  • 6- World War II: Decolonization becomes imaginable
  • 7- New international connections
  • 8- European efforts to reinvent overseas colonialism
  • 9- The Cold War, local collaborators, and the slowing pace of change
  • 10- The rise of anticolonial radicalism
  • 11- The international politics of decolonization
  • 12- Algeria's decolonization
  • 13- The legacies of decolonization
  • 14- PART TWO. The documents
  • 15- 1. 1945
  • 16- 1947: Decolonization becomes imaginable
  • 17- 1. Winston Churchill, "Hands off the British Empire," December 31, 1944
  • 18- 2. United Nations, United Nations Charter: Preamble and Declaration concerning non-autonomous territories, June 26, 1945
  • 19- 3. Ho Chi Minh, Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, September 2, 1945
  • 20- 4. An appeal of the Vietnamese Bishops in favor of the independence of their country, September 23, 1945
  • 21- 2. Defining new international connections
  • 22- 5. Fifth Pan-African Congress, The challenge to the colonial powers, 1945
  • 23- 6. UNESCO, The Statement on race, July 1950
  • 24- 7. Alfred Sauvy, three Worlds, one planet, August 14, 1952
  • 25- 8. First Afro-Asian conference, final communique, April 24, 1955
  • 26- 9. Richard Wright, The color curtain: A report on the Bandung Conference, 1956
  • 27- 10. Joseph Kirira and Josiah Kariuki, Song of Africa (Kenyan song), 1957
  • 28- 3. From possibilities of independence to expectations of liberation
  • 29- 11. Song for Murang'a Women (Kenyan song), ca. 1950
  • 30- 12. Historical survey of the origins and growth of Mau Mau, 1950, 1960
  • 31- 13. Historical survey of the origins and growth of Mau Mau, 1952, 1960
  • 32- 14. Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt's liberation: The philosophy of the revolution, 1955
  • 33- 15. The Shin Bet, The minorities in Israel, February 26, 1958
  • 34- 16. Georgios Grivas, Report addressed to Michail Christodolou Mouskos, May 23, 1955
  • 35- 17. Oath of the National Organization of Cypriot combatants, 1955
  • 36- 4. The triumph of anticolonialism
  • 37- 18. Mohammed Dib, The fire, 1954
  • 38- 19. National Liberation Front, Proclamation, November 1, 1954
  • 39- 20. Francois Mitterrand, Speech in response to FLN actions, November 12, 1954
  • 40- 21. Slimane Azem, Locust, leave my country (Berber song), 1955
  • 41- 22. Muslim population of Tebessa, Letter to Robert Lacoste, July 1956
  • 42- 23. Rene Massigli, French Intelligence analysis of British public opinion on the Algerian conflict, December 1956
  • 43- 24. Charles de Gaulle, Presidential press conference, April 11, 1961
  • 44- 25. Frantz Fanon, The wretched of the Earth, 1961
  • 45- 26. Visitor, Lift up the torch of United Africa, April 12, 1958
  • 46- 27. Eric Williams, Massa Day done, March 22, 1961
  • 47- 5. The contagion of independence
  • 48- 28. Conscience Africaine, Manifesto for Belgian Congo, July 1956
  • 49- 29. ABAKO, Counter Manifesto for Belgian Congo, August 23, 1956
  • 50- 30. Harold Macmillan, "Wind of change" Speech, February 3, 1960
  • 51- 31. Ingrid Jonker, The child who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga, 1960
  • 52- 32. United Nations General Assembly, Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples, December 14, 1960
  • 53- 33. Alvim Pereira, ten principles, 1961
  • 54- 34. Celina Simango, Speech at the International Women's Congress in Moscow, June 1963
  • 55- 35. Amilcar Cabral, anonymous soldiers for the United Nations, December 12, 1962
  • 56- 36. Zhou Enlai, Conversation with S.V. Chervonenko, April 20, 1965
  • 57- 37. Fayez A. Sayegh, Zionist colonialism in Palestine, 1965
  • 58- 38. Claudia Jones, The Caribbean community in Britain, 1964
  • 59- 39. Kwame Nkrumah, neo-colonialism: The last stage of imperialism, 1965
  • 60- APPENDIXES
  • 61- A chronology of the era of decolonization (1937
  • 62- 1965)
  • 63- Questions for consideration.

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