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Gerits, Frank, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Ideological Scramble for Africa : How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945–1966 / Frank Gerits. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (318 p.) : 9 b&w halftones, 2 maps text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: How African Liberation Shaped the International System -- Chapter 1 A Foreign Policy of the Mind, 1945–1954 -- Chapter 2 Offering Hungry Minds a Better Development Project, 1955–1956 -- Chapter 3 The Pan-African Path to Modernity, 1957–1958 -- Chapter 4 Redefining Decolonization in the Sahara, 1959–1960 -- Chapter 5 The Congo Crisis as the Litmus Test for Psychological Modernization, 1960–1961 -- Chapter 6 Managing the Effects of Modernization, 1961–1963 -- Chapter 7 The Struggle to Defeat Racial Modernity in South Africa and Rhodesia, 1963–1966 -- Chapter 8 The Collapse of Anticolonial Modernization, 1963–1966 -- Conclusion: How Decolonization Made Our Times -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In The Ideological Scramble for Africa, Frank Gerits examines how African leaders in the 1950s and 1960s crafted an anticolonial modernization project. Rather than choose Cold War sides between East and West, anticolonial nationalists worked to reverse the psychological and cultural destruction of colonialism.Kwame Nkrumah's African Union was envisioned as a federation of liberation to challenge the extant imperial forces: the US empire of liberty, the Soviet empire of equality, and the European empires of exploitation. In the 1950s the goal of proving the potency of a pan-African ideology shaped the agenda of the Bandung Conference and Ghana's support for African liberation, while also determining what was at stake in the Congo crisis and the fight against white minority rule in Southern and Eastern Africa. In the 1960s, the attempt to remake African psychology was abandoned and socio-economic development came into focus. Anticolonial nationalists did not simply resist or utilize imperial and Cold War pressures, but drew strength from the example of the Haitian revolution, which in 1791 had demanded the universal application of Europe's Enlightenment values. The liberationists of the post-war period wanted to redesign society in the image of the revolution that had created them. The Ideological Scramble for Africa demonstrates that the Cold War struggle between capitalism and communism was only one of two ideological struggles that picked up speed after 1945; the battle between liberation and imperialism proved to be more enduring. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) AFRICAN HIST & DIASPORA. Cold War History. International Studies. HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Cold War. bisacsh Postcolonialism and the Cold War, African diplomacy, Africa and the Global Cold War, Kwame Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, US diplomacy towards Africa, Empire and imperialism after 1945. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110751833 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 English 9783111319131 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 9783111318189 ZDB-23-DEG https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501767920 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501767920 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501767920/original |
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Gerits, Frank, Gerits, Frank, The Ideological Scramble for Africa : How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945–1966 / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: How African Liberation Shaped the International System -- Chapter 1 A Foreign Policy of the Mind, 1945–1954 -- Chapter 2 Offering Hungry Minds a Better Development Project, 1955–1956 -- Chapter 3 The Pan-African Path to Modernity, 1957–1958 -- Chapter 4 Redefining Decolonization in the Sahara, 1959–1960 -- Chapter 5 The Congo Crisis as the Litmus Test for Psychological Modernization, 1960–1961 -- Chapter 6 Managing the Effects of Modernization, 1961–1963 -- Chapter 7 The Struggle to Defeat Racial Modernity in South Africa and Rhodesia, 1963–1966 -- Chapter 8 The Collapse of Anticolonial Modernization, 1963–1966 -- Conclusion: How Decolonization Made Our Times -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: How African Liberation Shaped the International System -- Chapter 1 A Foreign Policy of the Mind, 1945–1954 -- Chapter 2 Offering Hungry Minds a Better Development Project, 1955–1956 -- Chapter 3 The Pan-African Path to Modernity, 1957–1958 -- Chapter 4 Redefining Decolonization in the Sahara, 1959–1960 -- Chapter 5 The Congo Crisis as the Litmus Test for Psychological Modernization, 1960–1961 -- Chapter 6 Managing the Effects of Modernization, 1961–1963 -- Chapter 7 The Struggle to Defeat Racial Modernity in South Africa and Rhodesia, 1963–1966 -- Chapter 8 The Collapse of Anticolonial Modernization, 1963–1966 -- Conclusion: How Decolonization Made Our Times -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: How African Liberation Shaped the International System -- Chapter 1 A Foreign Policy of the Mind, 1945–1954 -- Chapter 2 Offering Hungry Minds a Better Development Project, 1955–1956 -- Chapter 3 The Pan-African Path to Modernity, 1957–1958 -- Chapter 4 Redefining Decolonization in the Sahara, 1959–1960 -- Chapter 5 The Congo Crisis as the Litmus Test for Psychological Modernization, 1960–1961 -- Chapter 6 Managing the Effects of Modernization, 1961–1963 -- Chapter 7 The Struggle to Defeat Racial Modernity in South Africa and Rhodesia, 1963–1966 -- Chapter 8 The Collapse of Anticolonial Modernization, 1963–1966 -- Conclusion: How Decolonization Made Our Times -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Index |
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