The starting point for all efforts to consider the relationship between the Cold War and decolonization is now Odd Arne Westad's magisterial The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making ofOur Times (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), which explores the perceptions and policies of the United States, the Soviet Union, and the
People's Republic of China along with a host of actors in the global South across the twentieth century. Also critical for their larger and probing analytical sweep are Matthew Connelly, A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the PostCold War Era (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002); Bruce Cumings, The Origins of the Korea War, vol. II (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990); and Greg Grandin, The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America and the Cold War (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004).
On high imperialism and its discontents, David B. Abernathy's Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, 1415-1980 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
2000) is a useful overview. For pioneering explorations of imperial order that place the colonizers and colonized in the same interpretative frame, see Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1993); Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000); and Timothy Mitchell, Colonizing Egypt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
On the global dimensions of anticolonialism after World War I, Erez Manela's The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) is essential. On pan-Africanism and other forms of transnational solidarities, see Imanuel Geis, The Pan-African Movement: A History of PanAfricanism in America, Europe, and Africa (New York: Africana Publishing Company, 1974); Rebecca E. Karl, Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn ofthe Twentieth Century (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002); Penny von Eschen, Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997); and Mary Ann Glendon, World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (New York: Random House, 2001). The Bandung Conference awaits the attention of an international historian, but suggestive for its immediacy is Richard Wright, The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference (Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Company, 1956).
On the larger contours shaping American, Soviet, and Chinese Cold War intervention in the global South, see Melvyn P. Leffler, A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992); Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov, Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996); Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy J. Naftali, Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary (New York: Norton, 2006); and Chen Jian, Mao's China and the Cold War (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2001).
On the role of high modernism and economic development in the Cold War and decolonization, the following are essential starting points: James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998); David C. Engerman, Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003); David C. Engerman et al. (eds.), Staging Growth: Modernization, Development and the Global Cold War (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003); and Michael Adas, Domination by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006).
On Southeast Asia and India, see Mark Bradley, Imagining Vietnam and the United States: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina
Press, 2000); Mark Lawrence, Assuming the Burden: European and American Commitment to Vietnam (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005); Qiang Zhai, China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000); Mary P. Callahan, Making Enemies: War and State Building in Burma (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003); Robert J. McMahon, Colonialism and Cold War: The United States and the Struggle for Indonesian Independence, 1945-1949 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1961); and Andrew J. Rotter, Comrades at Odds: The United States and India, 1947-1964 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000).
On the Middle East, see Wm. Roger Louis, The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945-1951: Arab Nationalism, the United States, and Postwar Imperialism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984); Salim Yaqub, Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004); Nigel Ashton, Eisenhower, Macmillan, and the Problem ofNasser: Anglo-American Relations and Arab Nationalism, 1955-1959 (London: Macmillan, 1996); Nathan J. Citino, From Arab Nationalism to OPEC: Eisenhower, King Sa‘ud, and the Making of US-Saudi Relations (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002); Mark J. Gasiorowski and Malcolm Byrne (eds.), Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2004); and Douglas Little, American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002).
On Latin America and the Caribbean, see Leslie Bethell and Ian Roxborough's Latin America between the Second World War and the Cold War, 1944-1948 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992); Piero Gleijeses, Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991); Nick Cullather, Secret History (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999); Piero Gleijeses, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002); and Stephen G. Rabe, US Intervention in British Guiana: A Cold War Story (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006).
On Africa, see Frederick Cooper, Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996); David N. Gibbs, The Political Economy of Third World Intervention: Mines, Money, and US Policy in the Congo Crisis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991); Prosser Gifford and Wm. Roger Louis, eds., The Transfer of Power in Africa: Decolonization, 1940-1960 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982); Thomas Hodgkin, Nationalism in Colonial Africa (New York: New York University Press, 1957); Robert Tignor, Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire: State and Business in Decolonizing Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya, 1945-1963 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998); and Caroline Elkins, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya (New York: Henry Holt, 2004).
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