Political History of Guinea since World War Two

Summary: Political History of Guinea since World War Two provides an in-depth study of the political evolution of Guinea from World War Two to the present. Based on primary-source information, it examines with rare depth and breadth the eventful history of this nation-state, whose trajectory has impacted in no small ways Francophone Africa and the rest of the continent. Interviews with some of the most knowledgeable and most credible actors and/or witnesses of Guinea's political history and archival research, including the papers of key individuals never opened to the public before, constitute the foun.

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ISBN: 9781453911167
ISBN: 1453911162
ISBN: 9781433122439
ISBN: 143312243X
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xxx, 531 pages) : illustrations
Publisher: New York : Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Associational Life and the Rise of Civil Society 347.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; Contents; List of Tables xi; List of Illustrations xiii; Preface xvii; Acknowledgments xxi; List of Abbreviations xxiii; Introduction 1; Part I. The Multi-Stratum Context of Decolonization 11; Chapter 1. The Global Context 15; The United States, the NATO Factor and the Colonial Question 15; The Soviet Union, the Asia Factor and the Colonial Question 22; The United Nations and the Question of Decolonization 29; Chapter 2. The Pan-African Context 34; Global Pan-Africanism: The Conceptualization of "Black Liberation"? 35.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.