Elites and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Intelligence Providers and the Fabric of the Late Colonial State

Chapter 3 Elites and the Construction of the Nation in Southeast Asia

Chapter 4 Dutch Elites and Decolonization

Chapter 5 Emerging Business Elites in Newly Independent Indonesia

Chapter 6 Elites as the Least Common Denominator: The Ambivalent Place of French Schools in Lebanon in the Process of Decolonization

Chapter 7 Alternatives to Nationalism in French Africa, 1945–60

Chapter 8 Verwoerdian Apartheid and African Political Elites in South Africa, 1950–68

Chapter 9 Chieftaincies and Chiefs in Northern Namibia: Intermediaries of Power between Traditionalism, Modernization, and Democratization

Chapter 10 Nehru — the Dilemmas of a Colonial Inheritance

Chapter 11 A “Frontal Attack on Irrational Elements”: Sékou Touré and the Management of Elites in Guinea

Chapter 12 Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian Elites, and the Project of African Socialism

Chapter 13 The United States, Decolonization, and the Education of Third World Elites

Chapter 14 Building a Socialist Elite? — Khrushchev’s Soviet Union and Elite Formation in India