The ideological scramble for Africa : how the pursuit of anticolonial modernity shaped a postcolonial order, 1945-1966 / Frank Gerits.

"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 superiorit...

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Main Author: Gerits, Frank (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2023.
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245 1 4 |a The ideological scramble for Africa :  |b how the pursuit of anticolonial modernity shaped a postcolonial order, 1945-1966 /  |c Frank Gerits. 
246 3 0 |a How the pursuit of anticolonial modernity shaped a postcolonial order, 1945-1966 
264 1 |a Ithaca, New York :  |b Cornell University Press,  |c 2023. 
264 4 |c ©2023 
300 |a 1 online resource (xi, 304 pages) :  |b illustrations, maps 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a "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"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
588 |a Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 01, 2023). 
600 1 0 |a Nkrumah, Kwame,  |d 1909-1972  |x Influence. 
600 1 0 |a Nkrumah, Kwame,  |d 1909-1972  |x Political and social views. 
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650 0 |a Decolonization  |z Africa  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Postcolonialism  |z Africa  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Pan-Africanism  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a World politics  |y 1945-1989. 
651 0 |a Africa  |x Politics and government  |y 1945-1960. 
651 0 |a Africa  |x Politics and government  |y 1960- 
650 7 |a HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Cold War.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a Decolonization  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Pan-Africanism  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Political and social views  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Politics and government  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Postcolonialism  |2 fast 
650 7 |a World politics  |2 fast 
651 7 |a Africa  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Africa.  |2 thema 
650 7 |a Regional studies.  |2 thema 
650 7 |a African history.  |2 thema 
650 7 |a History.  |2 ukslc 
648 7 |a Since 1900  |2 fast 
655 7 |a History  |2 fast 
776 0 8 |i Print version:  |a Gerits, Frank.  |t Ideological scramble for Africa  |d Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023  |z 9781501767913  |w (DLC) 2022019500 
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