Voices of Decolonization: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture (Paperback))

This unprecedented volume shows how and why mid-twentieth-century decolonization transformed societies and cultures and continues to shape today’s world. The introduction explores decolonization as both a historical era and an aspirational movement. A rich collection of primary sources combines the voices of the colonized and the colonizers in Africa, Asia, and throughout the world to recapture the intensity and variety of the independence struggles. Organized chronologically and topically, the documents reveal how and why formal decolonization, once an unimaginable prospect to imperialists, came quickly to seem inevitable. Maps, document headnotes, a chronology, questions to consider, and a bibliography enrich students’ understanding of decolonization and its enduring consequences.

• Decolonization: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
• The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
• The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction
• Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century
• A Dying Colonialism
• 1989: Democratic Revolutions at the Cold War's End: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
• Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition
• Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History (Graphic History Series)
• Decolonization: A Short History
• The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey