Darker Nations A People's History of the Third World

Name: Darker Nations A People's History of the Third World
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ISBN: 9781595583420

ISBN-10: 1595583424

ISBN-13: 9781595583420

Edition: 2008

Authors: Vijay Prashad, Howard Zinn

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A landmark study that offers an alternative history of the Cold War from the point of view of the world's poor. "'"Europe" is morally, spiritually indefensible. And today the indictment is brought against it...by tens and tens of thousands of millions of men who, from the depths of slavery, set themselves up as judges.'"--Aime Cesaire, "Discourse on Colonialism" Here, from a brilliant young writer, is a paradigm-shifting history of both a utopian concept and global movement--the idea of the Third World. "The Darker Nations" traces the intellectual origins and the political history of the twentieth century attempt to knit together the world's impoverished countries in opposition to the…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 4/29/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.20" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Vijay Prashad is author of Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity.



Series Preface



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Quest


Paris: a concept conjured


Brussels: the 1928 League against Imperialism


Bandung: the 1955 Afro-Asian Conference


Cairo: the 1961 Afro-Asian Women's Conference


Buenos Aires: imagining an economy


Tehran: cultivating an imagination


Belgrade: the 1961 Non-Aligned Movement Conference


Havana: the 1966 Tricontinental Conference



Pitfalls


Algiers: the perils of an authoritarian state


La Paz: released from the barracks


Bali: death of the Communists


Tawang: war most foul


Caracas: oil, the devil's excrement


Arusha: socialism in a hurry



Assassinations


New Delhi: the obituary of the Third World


Kingston: IMF-led globalization


Singapore: the lure of the Asian Road


Mecca: when culture can be cruel


Conclusion


Notes


Index