Table of Contents
PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: DECOLONIZATION: FROM UNIMAGINABLE TO INEVITABLEWhat Is Decolonization?The Varieties of ImperialismInterwar Empires: Crisis and Consolidation, 1918-1937World War II: Decolonization Becomes ImaginableNew International Connections
European Efforts to Reinvent Overseas ColonialismThe Cold War, Local Collaborators, and the Slowing Pace of ChangeThe Rise of Anticolonial RadicalismThe International Politics of DecolonizationAlgeria’s DecolonizationThe Legacies of Decolonization
PART TWO. THE DOCUMENTS1. 1945-1947: Decolonization Becomes Imaginable1. Winston Churchill,
Hands off the British Empire, December 31, 19442. United Nations,
United Nations CharterPreamble and Declaration concerning Non-autonomous Territories, June 26, 19453. Ho Chi Minh,
Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, September 2, 19454.
An Appeal of the Vietnamese Bishops in Favor of the Independence of Their Country, September 23, 1945
2. Defining New International Connections
5. Fifth Pan-African Congress, The Challenge to the Colonial Powers, 1945
6. UNESCO, The Statement on Race, July 1950
7. Alfred Sauvy, Three Worlds, One Planet, August 1952
8. First Afro-Asian Conference,
Final Communiqué, April 24, 19559. Richard Wright,
The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference, 1956
10. Joseph Kirira and Josiah Kariuki,
Song of Africa (Kenyan Song), 1957
3. From Possibilities of Independence to Expectations of Liberation
11. Song for Muranga Women (Kenyan Song), ca. 1950
12.
Historical Survey of the Origins and Growth of Mau Mau, 1950, 196013.
Historical Survey of the Origins and Growth of Mau Mau, 1952, 196014. Gamal Abdul Nasser,
Egypt’s Liberation: The Philosophy of the Revolution, 195515. The Shin Bet,
The Minorities in Israel, February 26, 1958
16. Georgios Grivas, Report Addressed to Michail Christodolou Mouskos, May 23, 1955
17. Oath of the National Organization of Cypriot Combatants, 1955
4. The Triumph of Anticolonialism18. Mohammed Dib,
The Fire, 195419. National Liberation Front,
Proclamation, November 1, 195420. François Mitterrand,
Speech in Response to FLN Actions, November 12, 195421. Slimane Azem,
Locust, Leave My Country, (Berber song), 195522. Muslim Population of Tebessa,
Letter to Robert Lacoste, July 195623.
René Massigli,
French Intelligence Analysis of British Public Opinion on the Algerian Conflict, December 195624. Charles de Gaulle,
Presidental Press Conference, April 11, 196125. Frantz Fanon,
The Wretched of the Earth, 1961
26. Visitor, Lift Up the Torch of United Africa, April 12, 195827. Eric Williams, Massa Day Done, March 22, 1961
5. The Contagion of Independence28. Conscience Africaine,
Manifesto for Belgian Congo, July 195629. ABAKO,
Counter Manifesto for Belgian Congo, August 23, 1956
30. Harold Macmillan,
Wind of Change Speech, February 3, 196031. Ingrid Jonker,
The Child Who Was Shot Dead By Soldiers at Nyanga, 196032. United Nations General Assembly,
Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, December 14, 196033. Alvim Pereira,
Ten Principles, 196134. Celina Simango,
Speech at the International Womens Congress in Moscow, June 196335. Amilcar Cabral,
Anonymous Soldiers for the United Nations, December 12, 196236. Zhou Enlai,
Conversation with S. V. Chervonenko, April 20, 196537. Fayez A. Sayegh,
Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, 196538. Claudia Jones,
The Caribbean Community in Britain, 196439. Kwame Nkrumah,
Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, 1965
AppendixesA Chronology of the Era of Decolonization (1937-1965)Questions for ConsiderationSelected Bibliography
Index