Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 242
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Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-4422-6583-7 • Hardback • June 2018 • $44.00 • (£35.00)
978-1-4422-6585-1 • eBook • June 2018 • $41.50 • (£35.00)
Subjects: History / World,
History / Cold War,
History / Modern / 20th Century,
Political Science / American Foreign Policy,
Social Science / Regional Studies,
History / Africa / General,
History / Asia / General,
History / Europe / General,
History / Middle East / General,
History / Latin America / General,
History / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Edward H. Judge is professor of history and John W. Langdon is professor emeritus of history at Le Moyne College. Their books include Connections: A World History and The Cold War through Documents: A Global History.
List of Maps
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Struggle against Imperialism and Its Cold War Connections
Chapter 2. Empires, Ideologies, and Nations: Imperialism, Anti-Imperialism, and the Cold War
Chapter 3: “Long Live the Victory of People’s War”: Anti-Imperialism and the Cold War in Asia
Chapter 4: “We Are Today Free and Independent”: Anti-Imperialism and the Cold War in the Middle East
Chapter 5: “Scram from Africa!”: Anti-Imperialism and the Cold War in Africa
Chapter 6: “So Far from God…So Close to the United States”: Anti-Imperialism and the Cold War in Latin America
Chapter 7: “Every Country Decides Which Road to Take”: The End of the Soviet Russian Empire
Chapter 8: “Empires Wax and Wane”: Overview and Conclusions
Bibliography: Suggestions for Further Reading
In this rich and pithy book, two well-known scholars of the Cold War provide an enormous service for those seeking to understand the origins and limits of decolonization. Historians of empire have long contended with the question of what the retreat of formal empires actually ended and what legacies of colonialism survived into the present day. By intersecting the histories of the Cold War and decolonization on a global scale, Judge and Langdon guide readers to an understanding of the superpower and systemic struggles that shaped and limited the end of empire and the manner in which the fight for independence in turn fashioned the contours of the Cold War. This book is about nothing less significant than the production of the world in which we live.
— Trevor R. Getz, San Francisco State University