Dimensions: 9.21in - 6.14in - 0.79in - 1. vijay-prashad-the-darker-nations-a-peoples-his Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2s89cz4p3f Ocr tesseract 5.1.0-1-ge935 Ocrdetectedlang en Ocrdetectedlangconf 1.0000 Ocrdetectedscript Latin Ocrdetectedscriptconf 0.9796 Ocrmoduleversion 0.0.16 Ocrparameters-l eng Pagenumberconfidence 93.77 Ppi 300 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader.The Darker Nations restores to memory the vibrant though flawed idea of the Third World, whose demise, Prashad ultimately argues, has produced a much impoverished international political arena Book Details A breakthrough book of cutting-edge scholarship, it includes vivid portraits of Third World giants like Jawaharlal Nehru, Egypt's Nasser, and Indonesia's Sukarno-as well as scores of extraordinary but now-forgotten intellectuals, artists, and freedom fighters. Traversing continents, Vijay Prashad's fascinating narrative takes us from the birth of postcolonial nations after World War II to the downfall and corruption of nationalist regimes. In his book, The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad analyses the third world of the twentieth century as a project to unite formerly colonized states of Asia, Africa, and South and Central America.

Prashad is the author of forty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The.

The Darker Nations traces the intellectual origins and the political history of the attempt to knit together the world's impoverished countries in opposition to the United States and Soviet spheres of influence in the decades following World War II, as nation after nation across Asia, Africa and South America gained political independence from colonial rule. Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian and journalist. ' This book is a paradigm-shifting history of both a utopian concept and global movement-the idea of the Third World. The Darker Nations (English, Paperback, Prashad Vijay) Language: English Binding: Paperback Publisher: LeftWord Books Genre: Fiction ISBN: 9788187496670. 'The Third World was not a place,' argues Vijay Prashad.

The Darker Nations by Vijay Prashad