Gordian Knot Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order

Name: Gordian Knot Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order
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ISBN: 9780199855612

ISBN-10: 0199855617

ISBN-13: 9780199855612

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ryan M. Irwin

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Writing more than one hundred years ago, African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois speculated that the great dilemma of the twentieth century would be the problem of "the color line." Nowhere was the dilemma of racial discrimination more entrenched--and more complex--than South Africa.This book looks at South Africa's freedom struggle in the years surrounding African decolonization, and it uses the global apartheid debate to explore the way new nation-states changed the international community during the mid-twentieth century.At the highpoint of decolonization, South Africa's problems shaped a transnational conversation about nationhood. Arguments about racial justice, which crested as Europe…

Book details

List price: $64.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/20/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.45" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction: Opening the Curtain



Winds of Change



Architects and Earthquakes



Defining the Debate



Africa for the Africans



White Redoubt



Halls of Justice



The Status Quo



Looking Outward


Conclusion: Toward a New Order


Notes


Bibliography


Index