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Modern World History
Decolonisation and postcolonial challenges

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Modern World History

American and French revolutions
Industrial revolution and social transformation
Capitalism, liberalism, socialism and nationalism
National unification in Europe
Imperialism, colonisation and settler societies
First World War and the peace settlement
Russian Revolution and Soviet transformation
Interwar crisis and the Second World War
Cold War and the postwar order
Decolonisation and postcolonial challenges
Modernisation and revolution in East Asia

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Decolonisation and postcolonial challenges

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Drivers and forms of decolonisation
Liberation and its constraints
Postcolonial development
Malayan decolonisation and the Emergency
Education and anticolonial organisation
Latin American independence and its limits

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