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