Politics of Decolonization: Kenya Europeans and the Land Issue 1960-1965

by Gary Wasserman

Book Overview

Decolonization in the Third World has most often been approached by tracing the ties of nationalist movements to the attainment of independence. This book attempts to revise the perspective. It presents a model of decolonization centring on the idea that the process was shaped by the reaction of colonial interests to the ascendancy of a nationalist elite. Rather than tracing the upward development of a nationalist movement, it traces the downward...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521100232
• ISBN13: 9780521100236
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"