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 Ahmad -- "Society and ideology" selections from chapter 3, Consciencism : philosophy and ideology for decolonization / Kwame Nkrumah -- Part II : Imperialism and nationalism -- Introduction -- Contested hegemony: Th e Great War and the Afro-Asian assault on the civilizing mission ideolo gy / Michael Adas -- The world of history and the world-as-history: twe ntieth century theories of imperialism / Patrick Wolfe -- "The Revolt a gainst the West", selections from chapter 6, An introduction to contemp orary history / Geoffrey Barraclough -- "'My ambition is much higher th an independence': US power, the UN world, the nation-state, and their c ritics" / John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan -- Empire preserv'd: how the Americans put anti-Communism before anti-imperialism / William Roger Lo uis and Ronald Robinson -- The troubled history of partition / Radha Ku mar -- Part III: Regions and themes -- Introduction -- "Don't Paint Nat ionalism Red!" national revolution and socialist anti-imperialism / Ron ald Grigor Suny -- Islamic renewal and the 'Failure of the West' / John O. Voll -- The dialectics of decolonization: nationalism and labor mov ements in postwar French Africa / Frederick Cooper -- Social constructi on of idealized images of women in colonial Korea: the "New Woman" vers us "Motherhood" / Jiweon Shin -- National divisions in Indochina's deco lonization / Stein Tnnesson -- Colonial formations and deformations: Ko rea, Taiwan and Vietnam / Bruce Cumings -- Index.