Decolonization and the Cold War

Preface Odd Arne Westad (LSE, UK)Introduction Leslie James (University of Cambridge, UK) & Elisabeth Leake (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)Part 1: 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 (Harvard University, USA)2. 'The Life and Death of Our Republic': Modernization, Agricultural Development and the Peasantry in the Mekong Delta in the Long 1970s Simon Toner (LSE, UK)3. Export Processing Zones, Special Economic Zones and the Long March of Capitalist Development Policies during the Cold War Patrick Neveling (Historical Institute, Berne, Germany)Part 2: Intellectual Assertions in the Anti-Colonial Era4. Class Struggle and Self-Determination at Political Affairs: An Intellectual History of Communist Anti-colonialism in the United States, 1945-1960 John Munro (Saint Mary's University, Canada)5. 'A Unique Little Country': LebaneseExceptionalism, Pro-Americanism and the Meanings of Independence in the Writings of Charles Malik, c. 1946-1962 Andrew Arsan (University of Cambridge, UK)Part 3: Contesting Heritage and Identification6. The Malayan Communist Party and the Malayan Chinese Association: Internationalism and Nationalism in Chinese Overseas Political Participation, c. 1920-1960 Anna Belogurova (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)7. Negotiating Russian Imperial Aryanism: Soviet Oriental Studies in the Cold War Hanna Jansen (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)8. Grounding Ideologies: Archaeology, Decolonization and the Cold War in Egypt William Carruthers (University of Cambridge, UK)Part 4: (Re)conceiving Sovereignty and Statehood9. A 'Commonwealth Moment' in South Asian Decolonization Daniel Haines (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)10. Sovereignty in the Congo Crisis Ryan M. Irwin (University of Albany-SUNY, USA)11. Malcolm X in France, 1964-1965: Anti-Imperialism and the Politics of Travel

Leslie James is Lecturer in World History at the University of Cambridge, UK. Elisabeth Leake is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.