The landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective
of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by
the author
In this award-winning investigation into the overlooked history of the
Third World--with a new preface by the author for its fifteenth
anniversary--internationally renowned historian Vijay Prashad conjures
what Publishers Weekly calls "a vital assertion of an alternative
future." The Darker Nations, praised by critics as a welcome antidote
to apologists for empire, has defined for a generation of scholars,
activists, and dreamers what it is to imagine a more just international
order and continues to offer lessons for the radical political projects
of today.
With the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the rise of
India and China on the global scene, this paradigm-shifting book of
groundbreaking scholarship helps us envision the future of the Global
South by restoring to memory the vibrant though flawed idea of the Third
World whose demise, Prashad ultimately argues, has produced an
impoverished and asymmetrical international political arena. No other
book on the Third World--as a utopian idea and a global movement--can
speak so effectively and engagingly to our troubled times.
