| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 304 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction : How African Liberation Shaped the International System -- A Foreign Policy of the Mind, 1945-1954 -- Offering Hungry Minds a Better Development Project, 1955-1956 -- The Pan-African Path to Modernity, 1957-1958 -- Redefining Decolonization in the Sahara, 1959-1960 -- The Congo Crisis as the Litmus Test for Psychological Modernization, 1960-1961 -- Managing the Effects of Modernization, 1961-1963 -- The Struggle to Defeat Racial Modernity in South Africa and Rhodesia, 1963-1966 -- The Collapse of Anticolonial Modernization, 1963-1966 -- Conclusion : How Decolonization Made Our Times |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 01, 2023) |
| Subject |
Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972 -- Influence
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Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972 -- Political and social views
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| SUBJECT |
Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972 fast |
| Subject |
Decolonization -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
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Postcolonialism -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
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Pan-Africanism -- History -- 20th century
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World politics -- 1945-1989.
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HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Cold War.
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Decolonization
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Pan-Africanism
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Political and social views
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Politics and government
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Postcolonialism
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World politics
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Africa.
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Regional studies.
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African history.
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History.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Politics and government -- 1945-1960. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001572
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Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001573
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| Subject |
Africa
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022019501 |
| ISBN |
9781501767920 |
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1501767925 |
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9781501767937 |
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1501767933 |
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