Elites and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century

MICHAEL BOLLIG Professor of Ethnology, the University of Cologne, Germany JUDITH BROWN Beit Professor of Commonwealth History, University of Oxford, UK FREDERICK COOPER Professor of History, New York University, USA JOST DAuLFFER Professor of International History and of Peace and Conflict Studies in History, University of Cologne, Germany ANDREAD ECKERT Professor of African History, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany MARC FREY Helmut Schmidt Chair of International History, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany ANDREAS HILGER Post-doctoral Fellow at the Helmut Schmidt University of the German Armed Forces, Hamburg, Germany PAUL H. KRATOSKA Managing Director of NUS Press, National University of Singapore. J. THOMAS LINDBLAD Associate Professor of Indonesian History, Leiden University, the Netherlands MAIRI MACDONALD Doctoral Graduate in History, the University of Toronto, Canada CHRISTOPH MARX Professor of Non-European History, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany ESTHER MOELLER Research Fellow, Institute for European History, University of Mainz, Germany MARTIN THOMAS Professor of Colonial History, University of Exeter, UK CORINNA R. UNGER Professor of European History, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

Decolonization changed the spatial order of the globe, the imagination of men and women around the world and established images of the globe. Both individuals and social groups shaped decolonization itself: this volume puts agency squarely at the centre of debate by looking at elites and leaders who changed the course of history across the world.Decolonization changed the spatial order of the globe, the imagination of men and women around the world and established images of the globe. Both individuals and social groups shaped decolonization itself: this volume puts agency squarely at the centre of debate by looking at elites and leaders who changed the course of history across the world.