Daniel Branch is Professor of African History at the University of Warwick. His publications include Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya (Cambridge, 2009) and Kenya: Between Hope and Despair (2011). Branch has also written for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The London Review of Books, The Financial Times and The Daily Nation.

• Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: the intertwined cold war and decolonization; 1. Breaking out: labour and the emergency, 1952–56; 2. The quiet Americans: ACOA and the AFL-CIO, 1956–58; 3. The great dream of their lives: students in the United States, 1958–63; 4. The insects: labour and the global politics of decolonization, 1959–65; 5. Political traffic: students in eastern and central Europe, 1960–69; 6. The cultural cold war: development and intellectual politics, 1963–68; 7. The end, 1967–69; Conclusion: the realities of the modern world: a cold war political culture; Bibliography.

Daniel Branch is Professor of African History at the University of Warwick. His publications include Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya (Cambridge, 2009) and Kenya: Between Hope and Despair (2011). Branch has also written for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The London Review of Books, The Financial Times and The Daily Nation.

• Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: the intertwined cold war and decolonization; 1. Breaking out: labour and the emergency, 1952–56; 2. The quiet Americans: ACOA and the AFL-CIO, 1956–58; 3. The great dream of their lives: students in the United States, 1958–63; 4. The insects: labour and the global politics of decolonization, 1959–65; 5. Political traffic: students in eastern and central Europe, 1960–69; 6. The cultural cold war: development and intellectual politics, 1963–68; 7. The end, 1967–69; Conclusion: the realities of the modern world: a cold war political culture; Bibliography.

Daniel Branch is Professor of African History at the University of Warwick. His publications include Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya (Cambridge, 2009) and Kenya: Between Hope and Despair (2011). Branch has also written for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The London Review of Books, The Financial Times and The Daily Nation.

• Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: the intertwined cold war and decolonization; 1. Breaking out: labour and the emergency, 1952–56; 2. The quiet Americans: ACOA and the AFL-CIO, 1956–58; 3. The great dream of their lives: students in the United States, 1958–63; 4. The insects: labour and the global politics of decolonization, 1959–65; 5. Political traffic: students in eastern and central Europe, 1960–69; 6. The cultural cold war: development and intellectual politics, 1963–68; 7. The end, 1967–69; Conclusion: the realities of the modern world: a cold war political culture; Bibliography.