Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World | Vijay Prashad
1 post | 1 read | 1 to read
Here, from a brilliant young writer, is a paradigm-shifting history of both a utopian concept and global movement the idea of the Third World. The Darker Nations traces the intellectual origins and the political history of the twentieth century 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. Spanning every continent of the global South, 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. A breakthrough book of cutting-edge scholarship, it includes vivid portraits of Third World giants like India's Nehru, Egypt's Nasser, and Indonesia's Sukarno as well as scores of extraordinary but now-forgotten intellectuals, artists, and freedom fighters. 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."
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
blurb
Caterina
post image

Switched to audio for this one; it's a little dense for audiobook format, but I wanted to finish reading it and just didn't have capacity for sitting and reading the print book right now. Thankful for the accessibility that audiobooks provide!

#audiopuzzling