Includes bibliographical references and index.

In their words -- Introduction -- (The Three Principles of the Peopl e). Selections from Lecture 4 / Sun Yat-sen, San Min Chu I -- The path that led me to Leninism / Ho Chi Minh -- The discovery of India, Select ions from chapter 10 / Jawaharlal Nehru -- Frantz Fanon, "Algeria unvei led" (extracts) in A dying colonialism / Frantz Fanon -- "Diagnosing an illness" Chapter 1, Occidentosis: a plague from the West / Jalal Al-i Ahmand -- "Society and ideology" selections from chapter 3, Consciencis m: philosophy and ideology for decolonization / Kwame Nkrumah -- Part I I: Imperialism and nationalism -- Introduction -- Contested hegemony: T he Great War and the Afro-Asian assault on the civilizing mission ideol ogy / Michael Adas -- The world of history and the world-as-history: tw entieth century theories of imperialism / Patrick Wolfe -- "The Revolt against the West", selections from chapter 6, An introduction to contem porary history / Geoffrey Barraclough -- "'My ambition is much higher t han independence': US power, the UN world, the nation-state, and their critics" / John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan -- Empire preserv'd: how the Americans put anti-Communism before anti-imperialism / William Roger L ouis and Ronald Robinson -- The troubled history of partition / Radha K umar -- Part III: Regions and themes -- Introduction -- "Don't Paint Na tionalism Red!" national revolution and socialist anti-imperialism / Ro nald Grigor Suny -- Islamic renewal and the 'Failure of the West' / Joh n O. Voll -- The dialectics of decolonization: nationalism and labor mo vements in postwar French Africa / Frederick Cooper -- Social construct ion of idealized images of women in colonial Korea: the "New Woman" ver sus "Motherhood" / Jiweon Shin -- National divisions in Indochina's dec olonization / Stein Tnnesson -- Colonial formations and deformations: K orea, Taiwan and Vietnam / Bruce Cumings -- Index.