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Global History in the Cold War and Decolonization

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The reconstruction of Europe after the war was not solely an economic affair but also a political and historiographical one. The reconstruction of history and memory participated in this movement by exploring the origins of Fascism and Nazism as well as the breaks and continuities in terms of ideas, ideology, and actors. Meanwhile, decolonization was accompanied by a synchronous process of implementing archives in ex-colonies and reorganizing colonial archives in metropolitan France and Britain. History also underwent a profound renewal in the USSR after Stalin’s death. Since the 1990s, the publication of archival documents has continued in Russia, following the tradition that was developed during the Soviet period.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Friedländer (1992).

  2. 2.

    Abusch (1946).

  3. 3.

    Berger (2003).

  4. 4.

    Schulze (1989).

  5. 5.

    Iggers (1985).

  6. 6.

    Mommsen (2001).

  7. 7.

    Blackburn and Eley (1980).

  8. 8.

    Cantimori (1971).

  9. 9.

    Armitage and Guildi (2015).

  10. 10.

    Ginzburg and Poni (1979).

  11. 11.

    Venturi (1969–1990).

  12. 12.

    Bentley (2005).

  13. 13.

    Bédarida (1996).

  14. 14.

    Charle (1996).

  15. 15.

    Gemelli (1995), Tendler (2013).

  16. 16.

    Braudel (1987).

  17. 17.

    Brunschwig (1960), Debien (1954).

  18. 18.

    Balandier (1957).

  19. 19.

    Coquery-Vidrovitch (2009).

  20. 20.

    Braudel (1949).

  21. 21.

    Pirenne (1955), Momigliano (1984).

  22. 22.

    Hodgson (1993).

  23. 23.

    Muzzafar (2004).

  24. 24.

    Millar (1999).

  25. 25.

    Mote and Twichett (1988).

  26. 26.

    Subrahmanyam (1997).

  27. 27.

    Mote (2003).

  28. 28.

    Tin-bor Hui (2005).

  29. 29.

    Raeff (1989), Bin Wong and Will (1993).

  30. 30.

    Bin Wong (2001).

  31. 31.

    Chaudhuri (1985).

  32. 32.

    Di Cosmo.

  33. 33.

    Lombard (1992), Pearson (2003).

  34. 34.

    Dale (2010).

  35. 35.

    Bates (1997).

  36. 36.

    Lombard (1992).

  37. 37.

    Harbi and Stora (2004).

  38. 38.

    Branche (2001), Le Cour Grandmaison (2001).

  39. 39.

    Tough (2009).

  40. 40.

    Harris (2000).

  41. 41.

    Kenya Anti Corruption Commission (2007).

  42. 42.

    Mban (2007).

  43. 43.

    Allis Bastian (2006).

  44. 44.

    Richards (1993), Echevarria (1990).

  45. 45.

    Evans-Pritchard (1951), Lévi-Strauss (1962).

  46. 46.

    Comaroff (1992).

  47. 47.

    Vansina (1961), McCall (1964), Falola and Jennings (2002).

  48. 48.

    Kapteijins (1973), Neale (1985).

  49. 49.

    Coquery-Vidrovitch (2006).

  50. 50.

    Falola and Jennings (2002).

  51. 51.

    Asante (1987).

  52. 52.

    Eckert (2002), Gilbert and Reynolds (2004).

  53. 53.

    Neale (1985).

  54. 54.

    McCall (1964).

  55. 55.

    Stoler (1995), Amin (1995).

  56. 56.

    Swan (1985).

  57. 57.

    Metcalf (2007).

  58. 58.

    De Silva Jayasuriya and Pankhrurst (2003).

  59. 59.

    Hawley (2008).

  60. 60.

    Furtado (1959).

  61. 61.

    Devoto (1993–1994).

  62. 62.

    Markwick (2001).

  63. 63.

    Sidorova (1997).

  64. 64.

    Zelnik (2005).

  65. 65.

    Chernyk (2006).

  66. 66.

    Grimsted (1997).

  67. 67.

    Khlevniuk (1995).

  68. 68.

    Werth (1993).

  69. 69.

    Schmidt-Glintzer et al. (2005).

  70. 70.

    Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (1996).

  71. 71.

    Goldman (1969).

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Stanziani, A. (2018). Global History in the Cold War and Decolonization. In: Eurocentrism and the Politics of Global History. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94740-2_5

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