Companion Decolonization: The Routledge Companion to Decolonization (Routledge Companions to History)
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN: 0415356326 | edition 2000-10-17 | PDF | 365 pages | 2 mb
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN: 0415356326 | edition 2000-10-17 | PDF | 365 pages | 2 mb
The decolonization of the European colonies in Africa and Asia was perhaps the most important historical process of the 20th century. Within less than two decades from 1947 to the mid-1960s several colonial empires disappeared and scores of new nations became independent. Altogether it had taken more than three centuries to expand and consolidate these empires, yet it took less than twenty years for colonialism to become an anachronism.This essential companion to the process of decolonization includes thematic chapters as well as a detailed chronology, a thorough glossary, biographies of key figures, suggestions for further reading, maps and a guide to sources.