Elites and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century

1. Introduction
Jost Dülffer, Marc Frey

2. Intelligence Providers and the Fabric of the Late Colonial State
Martin Thomas

3. Elites and the Construction of the Nation in Southeast Asia
Paul H. Kratoska

4. Dutch Elites and Decolonization
Marc Frey

5. Emerging Business Elites in Newly Independent Indonesia
J. Thomas Lindblad

6. Elites as the Least Common Denominator: The Ambivalent Place of French Schools in Lebanon in the Process of Decolonization
Esther Möller

7. Alternatives to Nationalism in French Africa, 1945–60
Frederick Cooper

8. Verwoerdian Apartheid and African Political Elites in South Africa, 1950–68
Christoph Marx

9. Chieftaincies and Chiefs in Northern Namibia: Intermediaries of Power between Traditionalism, Modernization, and Democratization
Michael Bollig

10. Nehru — the Dilemmas of a Colonial Inheritance
Judith M. Brown

11. A “Frontal Attack on Irrational Elements”: Sékou Touré and the Management of Elites in Guinea
Mairi S. MacDonald

12. Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian Elites, and the Project of African Socialism
Andreas Eckert

13. The United States, Decolonization, and the Education of Third World Elites
Corinna R. Unger

14. Building a Socialist Elite? — Khrushchev’s Soviet Union and Elite Formation in India
Andreas Hilger

Nyckelord: History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Political History, History of Britain and Ireland, Imperialism and Colonialism, Modern History, International Relations