The Darker Nations
The Third World was not a place, argues Vijay Prashad. It was a project. This book 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 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, as nation after nation across Asia, Africa and South America gained political independence from colonial rule. Traversing continents, Vijay Prashad's fascinating narrative takes us from the birth of postcolonia…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-81-87496-67-0
- EAN: 9788187496670
- Produktnummer: 33512676
- Verlag: Leftword Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.0 cm 582 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 582
Über den Autor
Vijay Prashad is the Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is the author and editor of several books, including The Darker Nations: A Biography of the Short-Lived Third World (The New Press) and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (Verso). He writes regularly for Frontline, The Hindu, Alternet and BirGun. He is Chief Editor at LeftWord Books.
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