TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bogaerts, Els
AU  - Raben, Remco
AB  - The decolonization of countries in Asia and Africa is one of the momentous events in the twentieth century. But did the shift to independence indeed affect the lives of the people in such a dramatic way as the political events suggest? The authors in this volume look beyond the political interpretations of decolonization and address the issue of social and economic reorientations which were necessitated or caused by the end of colonial rule. The book covers three major issues: public security; the changes in the urban environment, and the reorientation of the economies. Most articles search for comparisons transcending the colonial and national borders and adopt a time frame extending from the late colonial period to the early decades of independence in Asia and Africa (1930s-1970s). The volume is part of the research programme ‘Indonesia across Orders’ of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation.  Contributors to the volume are: Greg Bankoff, Raymond Betts, Ann Booth, Cathérine Coquéry-Vidrovitch, Freek Colombijn, Frederick Cooper, Bill Freund, Karl Hack, Jim Masselos and Willem Wolters.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_424255
ID  - OAPEN ID: 424255
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030813642
KW  - economic history
KW  - political history
KW  - decolonization
KW  - indonesia
KW  - africa
KW  - asia
KW  - social history
KW  - Philippines
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/7d027ac3-cb58-4308-8b3f-786bce470cb3/424255.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34488
PB  - Brill
PP  - Leiden - Boston
PY  - 2012
SN  - 9789004260443
TI  - Beyond Empire and Nation; The Decolonization of African and Asian societies, 1930s-1960snull
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