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Milford, Ismay, McCann, Gerard, Hunter, Emma and Branch, Daniel (2021) Another world? East Africa, decolonisation, and the global history of the mid-twentieth century. The Journal of African History, 62 (3). pp. 394-410. doi:10.1017/S0021853721000566 ISSN 0021-8537.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853721000566
Abstract
This article proposes that there is a gap in our current understanding of the globalising and deglobalising dynamics of mid-twentieth-century East Africa, one that might be addressed by consolidating and taking forward recent developments in the historiography of decolonisation. Recent work by international historians has recovered the connected world of the 1940s to 1960s: the era of new postcolonial states, the ‘Bandung moment’, pan-African cooperation, and the early Cold War. Yet East Africa is less prominent in these histories than we might expect, despite the vibrancy of current work on this period in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Bringing these two fields into dialogue, through an explicitly regional East African framework and with a particular focus on individual lives, expands our understanding not only of the ‘globalisation of decolonisation’ but also of the deglobalising dynamics of the following decades that are frequently reduced to a history of global economic crisis.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DT Africa H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Kenya -- History -- 1895-1963 -- Historiography, Kenya -- History -- 1963- -- Historiography, Uganda -- History -- 1890-1962 -- Historiography, Uganda -- History -- 1962-1971 -- Historiography, Tanzania -- History -- 1918-1964 -- Historiography, Tanzania -- History -- 1964- -- Historiography, Decolonization -- Africa, East, Kenya -- Foreign relations, Uganda -- Foreign relations, Tanzania -- Foreign relations | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | The Journal of African History | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0021-8537 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | November 2021 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 62 | ||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 394-410 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0021853721000566 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This article has been accepted for publication in a revised form for publication in The Journal of African History https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-african-history | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 September 2021 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 16 September 2021 | ||||||||
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