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Politics of decolonization : Kenya Europeans and the land issue, 1960-1965
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ISBN: 0521208386 9780521208383 9780511759611 9780521100236 0521100232 0511759614 Year: 1976 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Decolonization in the Third World has most often been approached by tracing the ties of nationalist movements to the attainment of independence. This book attempts to revise the perspective. It presents a model of decolonization centring on the idea that the process was shaped by the reaction of colonial interests to the ascendancy of a nationalist elite. Rather than tracing the upward development of a nationalist movement, it traces the downward manipulation of that movement into a colonial system. The study concludes that instead of being a separating step to remove colonial influence, decolonization in more important respects ensured the continuity of the colonial political economy. The book is of interest to scholars, students and others interested in decolonization, white settles, East African affairs and land reform, as well as the general reader following current events in Africa.


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Nationalism : the nature and evolution of an idea
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ISBN: 0713158751 0713158743 9780713158748 9780713158755 Year: 1976 Publisher: London Arnold

René : a Canadian in search of a country
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ISBN: 0771026919 9780771026911 Year: 1976 Publisher: Toronto : McClelland and Stewart,

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Focuses on Lévesque and on Quebec events, treating each in a national context, offering a wealth of surprising revelations in a book as entertaining as it is authentic. Comprehesive research and extensive interviews with Lévesque, his friends and colleagues, yield a large amount of new material on Lévesque's early life, his character, personality, career, aims and achievements. In telling Lévesque's story, the author presents revealing sketches of such prominent figures as Pierre Trudeau, Jean Marchand, Jean Lesage, Robert Bourassa and others. In addition, the book provides a summary of Quebec nationalism throughout history and traces the development of Quebec separatism in the 1960s.


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Folklore and Nationalism in Modern Finland
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ISBN: 0253050715 Year: 1976 Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Probably in no other country has the marriage of folklore studies and nationalism produced such dramatic results as in Finland. The turning point in the struggle for independence was the intensifying nationalistic sentiment produced by the publication, in 1835, of Elias Lonnrot's Kalevala, an epic based on folk poetry. In the following decades a small band of Finnish scholar-patriots dug into Finnish folklore to forge a literary language, create a national culture, and reconstruct the prehistoric period of the nation's past independence. Folklore and Nationalism in Modern Finland traces the crucial impact of folklore studies on three periods in Finnish history: the era of Swedish and Russian rule; the tense decades between the winning of Finnish independence and the end of World War II; and the postwar period. By studying the increasingly propagandistic application of folklore by both the political right and left and by showing how respected folklore scholars allowed themselves to be swayed by political issues, Wilson raises important questions about the proper use of folklore—and indeed of all the humanities.


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Tariff and science policies : applications of a model of nationalism
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ISBN: 0802033385 1442638028 1442653493 9781442653498 9781442638020 9780802033383 Year: 1976 Volume: 4 Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo, [New York] : University of Toronto Press,

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