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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jeffrey James Byrne (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, University of British Columbia)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.60cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 16.00cm Weight: 0.658kg ISBN: 9780199899142ISBN 10: 0199899142 Pages: 408 Publication Date: 28 April 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Ch. 1 Method Men: The Praxis of Anti-Colonial Resistance Ch. 2 Our Friends Today: Algeria Joins the Third World Ch. 3 Real Existing Third Worldism: National Development in the Age of Ideologies Ch. 4 The Allure of Globalism: Algeria amid Continents, Colors, and the Cold War Ch. 5 Mecca of Impatience and Anxiety: Globalizations and the Third World Order Conclusion Bibliography IndexReviewsJeffrey Byrne has written a book that definitively places Algeria at the center of the Third World Project. His sources are as wide as his geographical reach, bringing this remarkable experiment in national liberation to life in an age when distress is the mode of discourse about the Global South. -Vijay Prashad, author of The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South Jeffrey Byrne has found a way around the mountainous obstacles to writing innovatively in the twenty-first century about twentieth-century decolonization, diplomacy, and the building of authoritarian states: the lack of archival sources, the mistake of confusing what officials in Washington (or Paris or London) thought with reality, and, not least, the myths that have grown up around one or another 'movement' in the so-called 'Third World' or 'Global South.' Follow him to Mecca of Revolution. -Robert Vitalis, author of White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations Byrne's elegant work demonstrates that anti-colonial agendas, ideas, and networks did not disappear when the Great Powers withdrew troops and lowered flags overseas. He argues that a cosmopolitan internationalism predated empire's bloody demise and nurtured Third Worldism. This is among the first studies to view decolonization from within, below, and across multiple points in the world. -Julia Clancy-Smith, University of Arizona Algeria occupied a crucial place during a pivotal period in international history, as revolutionary movements challenged the last vestiges of European colonialism, independent power centers emerged in Asia and Europe, and the US and USSR began groping toward a new relationship to preserve their preeminence. Mecca of the Revolution helps us rethink all of these relationships. Based on amazing research, it is a highly original and important work of scholarship. -Matthew Connelly, Columbia University Byrne's study is an important contribution to our understanding of the <em>realpolitik</em> of lesser sovereign states whose liberation thrust them into Cold War battlefronts. It gets us closer to a more analytic view of this world, the ideological battle lines of which still enshroud our thinking <em>Mecca of</em> <em>Revolution</em> will remain indispensable reading for anyone wishing to understand Global South-South relations after colonial liberation. --<em>American Historical Review</em> Recommended. --<em>CHOICE</em> Jeffrey Byrne has written a book that definitively places Algeria at the center of the Third World Project. His sources are as wide as his geographical reach, bringing this remarkable experiment in national liberation to life in an age when distress is the mode of discourse about the Global South. --Vijay Prashad, author of <em>The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South</em> Jeffrey Byrne has found a way around the mountainous obstacles to writing innovatively in the twenty-first century about twentieth-century decolonization, diplomacy, and the building of authoritarian states: the lack of archival sources, the mistake of confusing what officials in Washington (or Paris or London) thought with reality, and, not least, the myths that have grown up around one or another 'movement' in the so-called 'Third World' or 'Global South.' Follow him to Mecca of Revolution. --Robert Vitalis, author of <em>White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American</em> <em>International Relations</em> Byrne's elegant work demonstrates that anti-colonial agendas, ideas, and networks did not disappear when the Great Powers withdrew troops and lowered flags overseas. He argues that a cosmopolitan internationalism predated empire's bloody demise and nurtured Third Worldism. This is among the first studies to view decolonization from within, below, and across multiple points in the world. --Julia Clancy-Smith, University of Arizona Algeria occupied a crucial place during a pivotal period in international history, as revolutionary movements challenged the last vestiges of European colonialism, independent power centers emerged in Asia and Europe, and the US and USSR began groping toward a new relationship to preserve their preeminence. Mecca of the Revolution helps us rethink all of these relationships. Based on amazing research, it is a highly original and important work of scholarship. --Matthew Connelly, Columbia University Author InformationJeffrey James Byrne is Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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