Frank Gerits

The Ideological Scramble for Africa

How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945-1966

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Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 161mm x 240mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9781501767913
• ISBN-10: 1501767917
• Artikelnr.: 69043275

Autorenporträt

Frank Gerits is Assistant Professor in the History of International Relations at Utrecht University in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and Research Fellow of the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He is the coeditor of Visions of African Unity. Follow him on X @FrankGerits.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction:: How African Liberation Shaped the International System
1. A Foreign Policy of the Mind, 1945-1954
2. Offering Hungry Minds a Better Development Project, 1955-1956
3. The Pan-African Path to Modernity, 1957-1958
4. Redefining Decolonization in the Sahara, 1959-1960
5. The Congo Crisis as the Litmus Test for Psychological Modernization,
1960-1961
6. Managing the Effects of Modernization, 1961-1963
7. The Struggle to Defeat Racial Modernity in South Africa and Rhodesia,
1963-1966
8. The Collapse of Anticolonial Modernization, 1963-1966
Conclusion:: How Decolonization Made Our Times