The Ideological Scramble for Africa : : How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945–1966 / / Frank Gerits.

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• VerfasserIn: Gerits, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 p.) :; 9 b&w halftones, 2 maps

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 c...

Table of Contents

• 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