Description
Product ID: | 9780896803220 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies |
Title: | Making a World after Empire |
Subtitle: | The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives |
Authors: | Author: Christopher J. Lee |
Page Count: | 436 |
Subjects: | History, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, National liberation and independence, International relations, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, International relations, Asia, Africa, c 1945 to c 1960 |
Description: | In April 1955, twenty-nine countries from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East came together for a diplomatic conference in Bandung, Indonesia, intending to define the direction of the postcolonial world. In April 1955, twenty-nine countries from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East came together for a diplomatic conference in Bandung, Indonesia, intending to define the direction of the postcolonial world. Ostensibly representing two-thirds of the world’s population, the Bandung conference occurred during a key moment of transition in the mid-twentieth century—amid the global wave of decolonization that took place after the Second World War and the nascent establishment of a new Cold War world order in its wake. Participants such as Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Zhou Enlai of China, and Sukarno of Indonesia seized this occasion to attempt the creation of a political alternative to the dual threats of Western neocolonialism and the Cold War interventionism of the United States and the Soviet Union. |
Imprint Name: | Ohio University Press |
Publisher Name: | Ohio University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-08-19 |