Elites and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge Imperial and Postcol)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 9
List of Abbreviations......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
Introduction......Page 18
1 Intelligence Providers and the Fabric of the Late Colonial State......Page 28
2 Elites and the Construction of the Nation in Southeast Asia......Page 53
3 Dutch Elites and Decolonization......Page 73
4 Emerging Business Elites in Newly Independent Indonesia......Page 91
5 Elites as the Least Common Denominator: The Ambivalent Place of French Schools in Lebanon in the Process of Decolonization......Page 111
6 Alternatives to Nationalism in French Africa, 1945–60......Page 127
7 Verwoerdian Apartheid and African Political Elites in South Africa, 1950–68......Page 155
8 Chieftaincies and Chiefs in Northern Namibia: Intermediaries of Power between Traditionalism, Modernization, and Democratization......Page 174
9 Nehru – the Dilemmas of a Colonial Inheritance......Page 194
10 A \"Frontal Attack on Irrational Elements\": Sékou Touré and the Management of Elites in Guinea......Page 212
11 Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian Elites, and the Project of African Socialism......Page 233
12 The United States, Decolonization, and the Education of Third World Elites......Page 258
13 Building a Socialist Elite? – Khrushchev\'s Soviet Union and Elite Formation in India......Page 279
Index......Page 304