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The decolonization of the Americas occurred over several centuries as most of the countries in the Americas gained their independence from European rule. The American Revolution was the first in the Americas, and the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) was a victory against a great power , aided by France ...
23 de set. de 2022 · Decolonization points to the status of America as occupied land, and decoloniality reveals the role of this occupation in the production of modernity. Understanding the intersection between the two allows us to turn toward new relationships with the land—relationships that might dismantle settler frameworks and center previously ...
22 de abr. de 2024 · decolonization, process by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country. Decolonization was gradual and peaceful for some British colonies largely settled by expatriates but violent for others, where native rebellions were energized by nationalism.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
As a movement to establish independence for previously colonized territories from their respective metropoles, decolonization began in 1775 in North America. However, the term became far more widespread after the Second World War, receiving a new amplification by the development of new nationalisms in subaltern communities in the ...
While philosophically sympathetic to the aspirations of anticolonial nationalist movements abroad, the United States’ vastly greater postwar global security burdens made it averse to the instability that decolonization might bring and that communists might exploit.
- Jason C. Parker
- 2018
28 de out. de 2011 · Introduction. The epistemic and political project known as modernity/ (de)coloniality originated in South America, more specifically in the Andean region. To say “modernity and decoloniality” is to name in a colonial way the project that is being decolonized. Modernity/ (de)coloniality are complex, heterogeneous, and historical structural concepts.
Global Issues. Decolonization. When the United Nations was founded in 1945, some 750 million people, nearly a third of the world's population, lived in Territories that were dependent on colonial...
