Allies at the End of Empire
Loyalists, Nationalists and the Cold War, 1945-76
The wars of decolonization fought by European colonial powers after 1945 had their origins in the fraught history of imperial domination, but were framed and shaped by the emerging politics of the Cold War. In all the counter-insurgencies mounted against armed nationalist risings in this period, the European colonial powers employed locally recruited militias - styled as 'loyalists' - to fight their 'dirty wars'. These loyalist histories have been neglected in the nationalist narratives that have dominated the post-decolonization landscape, and this book offers the first comparative assessment of the role played by these allies at the end of…
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Weitere Autoren: Branch, Daniel (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-351-66465-3
- EAN: 9781351664653
- Produktnummer: 31674353
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 178 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'271 KB
Über den Autor
David M. Anderson is Professor of African History in the Global History and Culture Centre at the University of Warwick, UK. He has published widely on the history and politics of eastern Africa, including The Khat Controversy (2007), and Histories of the Hanged (2005). He is the editor of The Routledge Handbook of African Politics (2013). He is currently engaged in wider research on the history of empire and violence.Daniel Branch is Professor of Modern African History at the University of Warwick, UK. He is theauthor of Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya (2009), and Kenya: Between Hope and Despair 1963-2012 (2011). He is now researching a book about the life of Tom Mboya, Kenya's most charismatic political leader of the 1960s.
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