Author: Albert Memmi
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: decolonized, decolonization
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-10-24
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0816647356
ISBN-13: 9780816647354

In this time of global instability and widespread violence, Albert Memmi—author of the highly influential and groundbreaking work The Colonizer and the Colonized—turns his attention to the present-day situation of formerly colonized peoples. In Decolonization and the Decolonized, Memmi expands his intellectual engagement with the subject and examines the manifold causes of the failure of decolonization efforts throughout the world. As outspoken and controversial as ever, Memmi initiates a much-needed discussion of the ex-colonized and refuses to idealize those who are too often painted

Author: David Birmingham
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Keywords: africa, decolonization
Number of Pages: 117
Published: 1996-01-31
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0821411535
ISBN-13: 9780821411537

This bold, popularizing synthesis presents a readily accessible introduction to one of the major themes of the twentieth-century world history. Between 1922, when self-government was restored to Egypt, and 1994, when non-racial democracy was achieved in South Africa, no less than 54 new nations were established in Africa. Written within the parameters of African history, as opposed to imperial history, this study charts the process of nationalism, liberation and independence that recast the political map of Africa in these years. Ranging from Algeria in the North, where a French colonial gover

Author: Raymond F. Betts
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: world, contemporary, making, decolonization
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2004-03-26
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0415318203
ISBN-13: 9780415318204

Using colorful examples to illustrate his discussions, including Hong Kong, Nigeria, South Africa and Sri Lanka, the author throws light on the end of colonial empires and the changes and problems that decolonization created. This second edition brings the discussion up to date and looks at contemporary concerns such as the growth of Islamic Fundamentalism, 9/11 and the AIDS pandemic.

Author: David Clarke
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: decolonization, culture, art, kong, hong
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0822329204
ISBN-13: 9780822329206

Hong Kong Art is the first comprehensive survey of contemporary art from Hong Kong presented within the changing social and political context of the territory’s 1997 handover from British to Chinese sovereignty. Tracing a distinctive and increasingly vibrant art scene from the late 1960s through the present, David Clarke discusses a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, video, and installations, as well as other kinds of visual production such as architecture, fashion, graphic design, and graffiti.Clarke shows how a sense of local identity emerged in Hong Kong as t

Author: Prasenjit Duara
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: histories, rewriting, perspectives, decolonization
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2003-12-16
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0415248418
ISBN-13: 9780415248419

Decolonization brings together the most cutting-edge thinking by major historians of decolonization, including previously unpublished essays and writings by leaders of decolonizing countries including Ho Chi-Minh and Jawaharlal Nehru. The chapters in this volume present a move away from Western analysis of decolonizaton and instead move towards the angle of vision of the former colonies. This is a ground-breaking study of a subject central to recent global history.

Author: Todd Shepard
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: remaking, france, war, algerian, decolonization, invention
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-04
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 080147454X
ISBN-13: 9780801474545

In this account of the Algerian War’s effect on French political structures and notions of national identity, Todd Shepard asserts that the separation of Algeria from France was truly a revolutionary event with lasting consequences for French social and political life. For more than a century, Algeria had been legally and administratively part of France; after the bloody war that concluded in 1962, it was other--its eight million Algerian residents deprived of French citizenship while hundreds of thousands of French pieds noirs were forced to return to a country that was never home.

Author: James D. Le Sueur
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: decolonization, algeria, politics, identity, war, intellectuals, uncivil
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2001-04
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0812235886
ISBN-13: 9780812235883

Uncivil War is a provocative study of the intellectuals who confronted the loss of France’s most prized overseas possession, colonial Algeria. Tracing the intellectual history of one of the most violent wars of European decolonization, James D. Le Sueur illustrates how such key figures as Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Germaine Tillion, Jacques Soustelle, Raymond Aron, Claude Levi-Strauss, Albert Memmi, Frantz Fanon, Mouloud Feraoun, Jean Amrouche, and Pierre Bourdieu agonized over the "Algerian question."As Le Sueur argues, these and other individuals forged new not