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Politics, decolonisation, and the cold war in Dar es Salaam c.1965-72
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Roberts, George M. (2016) Politics, decolonisation, and the cold war in Dar es Salaam c.1965-72. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
This thesis uses the city of Dar es Salaam as a prism for exploring the intersection of the Cold War and decolonisation with political life in post-colonial Tanzania. By deconstructing politics in the city through transnational and international approaches, it challenges prevailing narratives of the global Cold War, African liberation, and the contemporary Tanzanian history. In the decade after Tanzania became independent in 1961, President Julius Nyerere’s commitment to the liberation of Africa transformed Dar es Salaam into a cosmopolitan epicentre of international affairs in Africa, on the frontline of both the Cold War and decolonisation. In shifting the focus away from superpower relations and the paradigm of the nation-state, this thesis shows how African politicians exercised significant influence over Cold War powers, but also how the global context pushed Nyerere’s government into increasingly authoritarian methods of rule. The political geography and public sphere of Dar es Salaam, as a ‘Cold War city’, provides an interpretative lens through which diverse but ultimately entwined narratives are understood. These include the international rivalry between East Germany and West Germany; the politics of the exiled Mozambican liberation movement, FRELIMO; the local experience of the global ‘1968’; and thecourse of elite politics in a critical period in the Tanzania’s recent history. This multilateral history is made possible by a multiarchival approach, to shed light on developments in Dar es Salaam from multiple, triangulated perspectives.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DT Africa | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) -- Politics and government -- 1965-1972., Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) -- History., Decolonization -- Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). | ||||
Official Date: | September 2016 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Department of History | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Anderson, David,1957-, Branch, Daniel,1978- | ||||
Sponsors: | Arts & Humanities Research Council (Great Britain), Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, German History Society (Great Britain, Society for the Study of French History, Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations | ||||
Extent: | 225 leaves : maps. | ||||
Language: | eng |
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