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43 produkter
Envisioning the Arab Future
Modernization in US-Arab Relations, 1945-1967
Häftad, 2018
586 kr
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Decades before 9/11 and the 'Arab Spring', US and Arab elites contended over the future of the Middle East. Through unprecedented research in Arabic and English, Envisioning the Arab Future details how Americans and Arabs - nationalists, Islamists, and communists - disputed the meaning of …
Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893-1982
Häftad, 2024
519 kr
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In 1893, a group of colonial officials from thirteen countries abandoned their imperial rivalry and established the International Colonial Institute (ICI), which became the world's most important colonial think tank of the twentieth century. Through the lens of the ICI, Florian Wagner argues that …
African Activists in a Decolonising World
The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952-1966
Inbunden, 2023
1733 kr
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As wars of liberation in Africa and Asia shook the post-war world, a cohort of activists from East and Central Africa, specifically the region encompassing present-day Malawi, Zambia, Uganda and mainland Tanzania, asked what role they could play in the global anticolonial landscape. Through the …
African Activists in a Decolonising World
The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952–1966
Häftad, 2024
519 kr
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As wars of liberation in Africa and Asia shook the post-war world, a cohort of activists from East and Central Africa, specifically the region encompassing present-day Malawi, Zambia, Uganda and mainland Tanzania, asked what role they could play in the global anticolonial landscape. Through the …
States-in-Waiting
A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization
Av Lydia Walker
Inbunden, 2024
1442 kr
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After the Second World War, national self-determination became a recognized international norm, yet it only extended to former colonies. Groups within postcolonial states that made alternative sovereign claims were disregarded or actively suppressed. Showcasing their contested histories, Lydia …
States-in-Waiting
A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization
Av Lydia Walker
Häftad, 2025
479 kr
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After the Second World War, national self-determination became a recognized international norm, yet it only extended to former colonies. Groups within postcolonial states that made alternative sovereign claims were disregarded or actively suppressed. Showcasing their contested histories, Lydia …
The Anticolonial Transnational
Imaginaries, Mobilities, and Networks in the Struggle against Empire
Av Erez Manela, Heather Streets-Salter
Häftad, 2023
579 kr
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This volume is the first to explore transnational anticolonialism as a general global phenomenon that spanned the entire twentieth century. Its collected essays model both a broadening of the issues under consideration and the collaboration necessary to do justice to the scope of this vibrant …
The Anticolonial Transnational
Imaginaries, Mobilities, and Networks in the Struggle against Empire
Av Erez Manela, Heather Streets-Salter
Inbunden, 2023
1559 kr
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This volume is the first to explore transnational anticolonialism as a general global phenomenon that spanned the entire twentieth century. Its collected essays model both a broadening of the issues under consideration and the collaboration necessary to do justice to the scope of this vibrant …
An International Anomaly
Colonial Accession to the League of Nations
Inbunden, 2025
1526 kr
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It is often assumed that only sovereign states can join the United Nations. But this was not always the case. At the founding of the United Nations, a loophole drafted by British statesmen in its predecessor organisation, the League of Nations, was carried forward, allowing colonies to accede as …
The Colombo Plan
Development Internationalism in Cold War Asia
Av David Lowe
Inbunden, 2025
1526 kr
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Conceived in 1950, the Colombo Plan for Co-operative Development in South and Southeast Asia was a unique experiment in foreign relations. Meeting annually across what we now know as the 'Indo-Pacific', talented administrators facilitated foreign aid provision, and promoted development fuelled …
Socialist De-Colony
Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana's Cold War
Inbunden, 2025
1502 kr
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Led by the charismatic Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana won its political independence from the United Kingdom in 1957. It precipitated both the dying spiral of colonialism across the African continent and the world's first Black socialist state. Utilising materials from Ghanaian, Russian, English, and …
Sarah Wambaugh and the Plebiscite
The Turbulent History of a Democratic Alternative to War
Inbunden, 2026
1610 kr
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Andrew Park tells the story of the rise and fall of the plebiscite, once seen as a promising democratic solution to international conflict which - more than once - became embroiled in controversy and war in the first half of the twentieth century. The book's central figure is the brilliant but …
Armed Internationalists
Transnational Volunteering in the Twentieth Century
Av Morten Heiberg, Enrico Acciai m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1610 kr
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This unique transnational history explores the extraordinary lives of left-wing volunteers who fought in not just one, but multiple conflicts across the globe during the mid-twentieth century. Utilising previously unpublished archival material, Heiberg, Acciai and Bjerström follow these individual …
The End of Cold War Solidarity
Mozambique and the Soviet Union in the Age of Decolonization
Häftad, 2026
679 kr
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This innovative multi-archival study explores the myriad and unexpected connections between the USSR and Mozambique during the last decades of state socialism, decolonization and Cold War. Drawing on documents and oral histories in three languages, Elizabeth Banks explores how leaders, bureaucrats, …
The End of Cold War Solidarity
Mozambique and the Soviet Union in the Age of Decolonization
Inbunden, 2026
1853 kr
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This innovative multi-archival study explores the myriad and unexpected connections between the USSR and Mozambique during the last decades of state socialism, decolonization and Cold War. Drawing on documents and oral histories in three languages, Elizabeth Banks explores how leaders, bureaucrats, …
Decolonisation Interrupted
West Papua, the UN, and the Limits of Self-Determination
Av Emma Kluge
Häftad, 2026
679 kr
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Bringing the Pacific into the global history of decolonisation, Decolonisation Interrupted tells the story of West Papua's thwarted bid for independence from Indonesia in the 1960s. Emma Kluge reconstructs a transnational campaign that stretched from local villages and border camps to the corridors …
Decolonisation Interrupted
West Papua, the UN, and the Limits of Self-Determination
Av Emma Kluge
Inbunden, 2026
1853 kr
Kommande
Bringing the Pacific into the global history of decolonisation, Decolonisation Interrupted tells the story of West Papua's thwarted bid for independence from Indonesia in the 1960s. Emma Kluge reconstructs a transnational campaign that stretched from local villages and border camps to the corridors …
Envisioning the Arab Future
Modernization in US-Arab Relations, 1945-1967
Inbunden, 2017
873 kr
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Decades before 9/11 and the 'Arab Spring', US and Arab elites contended over the future of the Middle East. Through unprecedented research in Arabic and English, Envisioning the Arab Future details how Americans and Arabs - nationalists, Islamists, and communists - disputed the meaning of …
Of Limits and Growth
The Rise of Global Sustainable Development in the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2015
754 kr
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Of Limits and Growth connects three of the most important aspects of the twentieth century: decolonization, the rise of environmentalism, and the United States' support for economic development and modernization in the Third World. It links these trends by revealing how environmental NGOs …
Anti-Imperial Metropolis
Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism
Inbunden, 2015
1928 kr
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This book traces the spread of a global anti-imperialism from the vantage point of Paris between the two World Wars, where countless future leaders of Third World countries spent formative stints. Exploring the local social context in which these emergent activists moved, the study delves into …
Humanitarian Invasion
Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan
Inbunden, 2016
1593 kr
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Humanitarian Invasion is the first book of its kind: a ground-level inside account of what development and humanitarianism meant for Afghanistan, a country touched by international aid like no other. Relying on Soviet, Western, and NGO archives, interviews with Soviet advisers and NGO workers, and …
Latin America and the First World War
Av Stefan Rinke
Inbunden, 2017
1425 kr
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Using a broad variety of textual and visual sources, Latin America and the First World War goes beyond traditional diplomatic history and analyzes the global dimension of the history of the Great War. Filling a significant gap in transnational histories of the war, Stefan Rinke addresses political, …
Oil Revolution
Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, and the Economic Culture of Decolonization
Inbunden, 2017
1559 kr
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Through innovative and expansive research, Oil Revolution analyzes the tensions faced and networks created by anti-colonial oil elites during the age of decolonization following World War II. This new community of elites stretched across Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Algeria, and Libya. …
Volkswagen in the Amazon
The Tragedy of Global Development in Modern Brazil
Inbunden, 2017
1644 kr
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From 1973 to 1987, Volkswagen's (VW) 140,000 hectare 'pioneer' cattle ranch on the Amazon frontier laid bare the limits of capitalist development. These limits were not only economic, with the core management of a multinational company engaged in the 'integration' of an extreme world periphery, but …
Of Limits and Growth
The Rise of Global Sustainable Development in the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2016
502 kr
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Of Limits and Growth connects three of the most important aspects of the twentieth century: decolonization, the rise of environmentalism, and the United States' support for economic development and modernization in the Third World. It links these trends by revealing how environmental NGOs …
Anti-Imperial Metropolis
Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism
Häftad, 2017
491 kr
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This book traces the spread of a global anti-imperialism from the vantage point of Paris between the two World Wars, where countless future leaders of Third World countries spent formative stints. Exploring the local social context in which these emergent activists moved, the study delves into …
Humanitarian Invasion
Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan
Häftad, 2018
426 kr
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Humanitarian Invasion is the first book of its kind: a ground-level inside account of what development and humanitarianism meant for Afghanistan, a country touched by international aid like no other. Relying on Soviet, Western, and NGO archives, interviews with Soviet advisers and NGO workers, and …
Latin America and the First World War
Av Stefan Rinke
Häftad, 2017
459 kr
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Using a broad variety of textual and visual sources, Latin America and the First World War goes beyond traditional diplomatic history and analyzes the global dimension of the history of the Great War. Filling a significant gap in transnational histories of the war, Stefan Rinke addresses political, …
Comrades against Imperialism
Nehru, India, and Interwar Internationalism
Häftad, 2019
574 kr
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In this book Michele L. Louro compiles the debates, introduces the personalities, and reveals the ideas that seeded Jawaharlal Nehru's political vision for India and the wider world. Set between the world wars, this book argues that Nehru's politics reached beyond India in order to fulfill a …
Comrades against Imperialism
Nehru, India, and Interwar Internationalism
Inbunden, 2018
1375 kr
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In this book Michele L. Louro compiles the debates, introduces the personalities, and reveals the ideas that seeded Jawaharlal Nehru's political vision for India and the wider world. Set between the world wars, this book argues that Nehru's politics reached beyond India in order to fulfill a …
