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Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 Christopher Bayly
ISBN: 067401748X, 978-0674017481 Год издания: 2005 Издательство: Belknap Press Язык: Английский РазвернутьIn the early stages of the Second World War, the vast crescent of British-ruled territories stretching from India to Singapore appeared as a massive Allied asset. It provided scores of soldiers and great quantities of raw materials and helped present a seemingly impregnable global defense against the Axis. Yet, within a few weeks in 1941-42, a Japanese invasion had destroyed all this, sweeping suddenly and decisively through south and southeast Asia to the Indian frontier, and provoking the extraordinary revolutionary struggles which would mark the beginning of the end of British dominion in the East and the rise of today's Asian…
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The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World Vijay Prashad
ISBN: 1595583424 Год издания: 2007 Издательство: The New Press Язык: Английский РазвернутьHere, from a brilliant young writer, is a paradigm-shifting history of both a utopian concept and global movement—the idea of the Third World. The Darker Nations traces the intellectual origins and the political history of the twentieth century attempt to knit together the world's impoverished countries in opposition to the United States and Soviet spheres of influence in the decades following World War II. Spanning every continent of the global South, Vijay Prashad’s fascinating narrative takes us from the birth of postcolonial nations after World War II to the downfall and corruption of nationalist regimes. A breakthrough book of…
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Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law Antony Anghie
ISBN: 978-0521702720 Год издания: 2005 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Язык: Английский РазвернутьThis book argues that the colonial confrontation was central to the formation of international law and, in particular, its founding concept, sovereignty. Traditional histories of the discipline present colonialism and non-European peoples as peripheral concerns. By contrast, Anghie argues that international law has always been animated by the 'civilizing mission' - the project of governing non-European peoples, and that the economic exploitation and cultural subordination that resulted were constitutively significant for the discipline. In developing these arguments, the book examines different phases of the colonial encounter, ranging from…
