Descrizione
Vijay Prashad’s ‘Third World History’ brings back to the center of the historical and political debate a subject that, often associated with images of political, humanitarian and environmental catastrophes, was one of the protagonists of twentieth-century history. A fiery battlefield for the two superpowers that were protagonists of the Cold War, the Third World was also and above all a hotbed of new political conceptions, visions of a different world forged by the struggle against the formidable forces deployed by colonialism first and neocolonialism later. Through a tight and passionate narrative, the author retraces the history of this subject, from its genesis in anti-colonial struggles to the failures of its political, social and cultural achievements. A journey that touches the most significant places where this history took shape and returns unforgettable portraits of its great leaders, with their ideas, their struggles and their political shipwrecks. What are the legacies of this extraordinary political and cultural journey remains the final question, also in light of the equally radical and catastrophic failures of the Soviet model first and the neo-liberal one after.
