The ideological scramble for Africa how the pursuit of anticolonial modernity shaped a postcolonial order, 1945-1966 / Frank Gerits.
| Author/creator | Gerits, Frank |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2023. |
| Description | xi, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : How African Liberation Shaped the International System -- A Foreign Policy of the Mind, 1945-1954 -- Offering Hungry Minds a Better Development Project, 1955-1956 -- The Pan-African Path to Modernity, 1957-1958 -- Redefining Decolonization in the Sahara, 1959-1960 -- The Congo Crisis as the Litmus Test for Psychological Modernization, 1960-1961 -- Managing the Effects of Modernization, 1961-1963 -- The Struggle to Defeat Racial Modernity in South Africa and Rhodesia, 1963-1966 -- The Collapse of Anticolonial Modernization, 1963-1966 -- Conclusion : How Decolonization Made Our Times. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-290) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022019500 |
| ISBN | 9781501767913 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |