Decolonization and the Cold War: Negotiating Independence

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The Cold War and decolonization transformed the twentieth century world. This volume brings together an international line-up of experts to explore how these transformations took place and expand on some of the latest threads of analysis to help inform our understanding of the links between the two phenomena. The book begins by exploring ideas of modernity, development, and economics as Cold War and postcolonial projects and goes on to look at the era’s intellectual history and investigate how emerging forms of identity fought for supremacy. Finally, the contributors question ideas of sovereignty and state control that move beyond traditional Cold War narratives. Decolonization and the Cold War emphasizes new approaches by drawing on various methodologies, regions, themes, and interdisciplinary work, to shed new light on two topics that are increasingly important to historians of the twentieth century. Cover Contents Series Editor Preface Notes on Contributors Foreword Odd Arne Westad Acknowledgements Maps Introduction Leslie James and Elisabeth Leake Part I Developing the Nation: Economics, Modernity and the ‘State Project’ 1 ‘Fantastic Quantities of Food Grains’: Cold War Visions and Agrarian Fantasies in Independent India Benjamin Siegel 2 ‘The Life and Death of Our Republic’: Modernization, Agricultural Development and the Peasantry in the Mekong Delta in the Long 1970s Simon Toner 3 Export Processing Zones, Special Economic Zones and the Long March of Capitalist Development Policies During the Cold War Patrick Neveling Part II Intellectual Assertions in the Anti-Colonial Era 4 Class Struggle and Self-Determination at Political Affairs: An Intellectual History of Communist Anti-Colonialism in the United States, 1945–1960 John Munro 5 ‘A Unique Little Country’: Lebanese Exceptionalism, Pro-Americanism and the Meanings of Independence in the Writings of Charles Malik, c. 1946–1962 Andrew Arsan Part III Contesting Heritage and Identification 6 The Malayan Communist Party and the Malayan Chinese Association: Internationalism and Nationalism in Chinese Overseas Political Participation, c. 1920–1960 Anna Belogurova 7 Negotiating Russian Imperial Aryanism: Soviet Oriental Studies in the Cold War Hanna Jansen 8 Grounding Ideologies: Archaeology, Decolonization and the Cold War in Egypt William Carruthers Part IV (Re)conceiving Sovereignty and Statehood 9 A ‘Commonwealth Moment’ in South Asian Decolonization Daniel Haines 10 Sovereignty in the Congo Crisis Ryan M. Irwin 11 Malcolm X in France, 1964–1965: Anti-Imperialism and the Politics of Travel Control in the Cold War Era Moshik Temkin 12 From Foreign Concessions to Special Economic Zones: Decolonization and Foreign Investment in Twentieth-Century Asia Christopher Miller Part V Defending the State: Intelligence and Violence 13 Archives, Intelligence and Secrecy: The Cold War and the End of the British Empire Caroline Elkins 14 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Subversive: India, Pakistan and the Politics of Cold War Intelligence Paul M. McGarr Index