Inventing the Third World

Jeremy Adelman is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and Director of the Global History Lab at Princeton University, USA. He has been the recipient of the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship, as well as recognitions for his pioneering teaching at Princeton. Chair of the Princeton History Department for the last four years, he is also the founder of the Council for International Teaching and Research.Gyan Prakash is Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University, USA. A specialist in the history of modern India, he is the author of The Postcolonial Moment in South and Southeast Asia (Bloomsbury, 2018), and Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsPreface, Homi BhabhaIntroduction: Imagining the Third World: Genealogies of Alternative Global Histories, Gyan Prakash and Jeremy Adelman1. The Third World Before Afro-Asia, Cindy Ewing (University of Toronto, Canada)2. From Peace to National Liberation: Mexico and the Tricontinental, Patrick Iber (University of Wisconsin, USA)3. A Voice for the Yugoslavs in Latin America: Oscar Waiss and the Yugoslav-Chilean Connection, (Agustín Cosovschi, Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales, France)4. The End of Ideology and the Third World: The Congress For Cultural Freedom’s 1955 Milan Conference on the “Future Of Freedom” and its Aftermath (Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Wesleyan University, USA)5. Latin American Network in Exile: A Communist Cultural Legacy for the Third World, (Marcelo Ridenti, State University Of Campinas, Brazil)6. Radical Scholarship and Political Activism: Walter Rodney as Third World Intellectual and Historian of the Third World, (Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University, Germany)7. From London 1948 to Dakar 1966: Crises in Anticolonial Counterpublics, (Penny M. von Eschen, University of Virginia, USA)8. Francis Newton Souza’s Black Paintings: Postwar Transactions in Color, (Atreyee Gupta (University Of California, Berkeley, USA)9. Listening to the Cold War in Bombay, (Naresh Fernandes (Independent Writer)10. Imagining a Progressive World: Soviet Visual Culture in Postcolonial India, (Jessica Bachman (University of Washington, USA)11. The Battle of Conferences: Cultural Decolonisation and Global Cold War, (Monica Popescu, Mcgill University, Canada)12. The Death of the Third World Revisited: Curative Democracy and World-Making in Late 1970s India, (Srirupa Roy, University Of Göttingen, Germany)Coda (Samuel Moyn, Yale University, USA)BibliographyIndex

"In 2007, Vijay Prashad proposed the notion that the Third World was not a place but rather a project. Inventing the Third World is an important new book that demonstrates how this project, pursued on many fronts as a work in progress, not only was relevant during the turbulent years of the Cold War but, with its notions of development, peace, and social justice, might still be relevant for the world of today.