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Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire: State and Business in Decolonizing Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya, 1945-1963
By (Author) Robert L. Tignor
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
African history
European history
330.96032
Hardback
434
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
765g
The two decades that followed World War II witnessed the end of the great European empires in Asia and Africa. Robert Tignor's new study of the decolonization experiences of Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya elucidates the major factors that led to the transfer of power from British to African hands in these three territories. Employing a comparative metho