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Author Kalter, Christoph, author

Title The discovery of the Third World : decolonization and the rise of the new Left in France, c. 1950-1976 / Christoph Kalter (Freie Universit?at Berlin) ; translated by Thomas Dunlap
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 498 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction: From "Discovery" to Historiography; 1.1. A Discovery and Its Consequences; 1.2. Periodization: The Third World and the Radical Left in the "Long 1960s"; 1.3. Unwritten History: The "Third World" as a Concept; 1.4. Not Only in the Hexagon: French Contemporary History, French Left; 1.5. From Algeria to Vietnam: The Third World, the Radical Left, and "1968"; 1.6. Constriction and Facilitation: The Cold War
1.7. Postcolonial France: Decolonization, Anticolonialism, and Debates on Colonialism1.8. Primary Sources; 1.9. Structure of this Book; 2 A New Concept of the World: The Third World in the Social Sciences and Politics; 2.1. A New Paradigm: The Social Sciences and the Third World in the 1950s; Formative Context and Plausible Reasons: Decolonization, the Cold War, and the Global Prosperity Gap; The Theoretical Core: Social Sciences, the Third World, and Modernization Theory; The Discovery of the Third World: Alfred Sauvy and the French Debate in the 1950s
2.2. Consolidation and Diversification: The Third World in the 1960s2.3. Three Worlds or Many Worlds? The Concept's Crisis in the 1970s and 1980s; 2.4. From Third World to One World? The 1990s and Globalization; 3 Conflicts, New Diversity, and Convergence: The New Radical Left in France; 3.1. Socialism, Communism, and the Ultra-Left in France after 1945; Hostile Proximity: Socialists and Communists; Beyond the Major Leftist Parties: The Ultra-Left; Attraction, Repulsion: Intellectuals and Marxism; 3.2. Ambivalences: The "Old" Left and the Colonial World
Marxism, Colonialism, and AnticolonialismRepublic and Civilizing Mission: French Socialists and the Colonies; (Un)conditionally Anticolonial: The French Communists and the Colonies; 3.3. Revolution and Anticolonialism: The New Radical Left; "Triple Crisis": Hungary, Suez, and Algeria in 1956; The New Radical Left: Definition and Perspectives; Diffuse End: Third World and Radical Left in the 1970s; 4 "From the Résistance to Anticolonialism": The Politics of Memory in the New Radical Left; Prologue: May 8, 1945; Heroes and Victims: The French Master Narrative of the Postwar Period
4.1. Setting the Courses: Remembering World War II and Criticizing Colonialism in the Early Postwar Years (1946-1951)Of "Victims" and "Perpetrators": A French Role Reversal in the Indochina War; Nazi and Colonial Massacres: Oradour as a Transnational Memory Site in René Vautier; Civilization of Violence: Colonialism and Nazism in Aimé Césaire; 4.2. Like the Nazis? Like the Résistance? The Politics of Memory during the Algerian War (1954-1962); Truth and Testimony: The Basic Categories of the Oppositional Discourse on Algeria
Summary This book explores the emergence of 'Third Worldism' as a new intellectual movement during the era of decolonisation and the Cold War
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-489) and index
Notes Translated from the German
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Subject New Left -- France -- History -- 20th century
Radicals -- France -- History -- 20th century
Decolonization -- Developing countries -- History -- 20th century
Anti-imperialist movements -- France -- History -- 20th century
Anti-imperialist movements -- History -- 20th century
World politics -- 1945-1989.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Anti-imperialist movements
Decolonization
International relations
New Left
Politics and government
Radicals
World politics
Neue Linke
Entkolonialisierung
SUBJECT France -- Relations -- Developing countries
Developing countries -- Relations -- France
France -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051488
Subject Developing countries
France
Frankreich
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1316693570
9781316693575
9781139696906
1139696904
9781316693728
1316693724
9781316693278
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1107426456
9781107426450
Other Titles Entdeckung der Dritten Welt. English