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Decolonization: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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Decolonization: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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Millions of Africans, Asians, and other peoples were the subjects
of colonial rule by overseas empires through the mid-twentieth
century. By the end of the century, however, nearly all of these
peoples had become citizens of independent nation-states. The
United Nations grew from 51 member states at its founding in 1945
to 193 today. Its nearly four-fold increase is one measure of the
historic shift in international relations that has occurred over
the past half-century. Decolonization is the term commonly used to
refer to this transition from a world of colonial empires to a
world of nation-states in the years after World War II. Both
ex-imperial states and post-colonial regimes have promoted a
selective and sanitized version of decolonization that casts their
own conduct in a positive light, characterizing the process as
negotiated and the outcome as inevitable. This book draws on recent
scholarship to challenge that view, demonstrating that considerable
violence and instability accompanied the end of empire and that the
outcome was often up for grabs. This book highlights three themes.
The first is that global war between empires precipitated
decolonization, creating the economic and political crises that
gave colonial subjects the opportunity to seek independence. The
second theme is that nation-state was not the only option pursued
by anti-colonial activists. Many of them sought pan- and
trans-national polities instead, but a combination of international
and institutional pressures made the nation-state the standard
template. The third theme is that the struggle to escape imperial
subjugation and create nation-states generated widespread violence
and produced huge refugee populations, leading to political
problems that persist to the present day. By focusing on these
crucial points, Dane Kennedy reminds us how the tumultuous, even
tragic, changes caused by the decolonization profoundly shaped the
world we live in.
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