Ways of the World:A Brief Global History

First Edition

CHAPTER 23Independence and Development

in the Global South1914–Present

Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s

Robert W. Strayer

Toward Freedom:

Struggles for Independence• The End of Empire in World History• Explaining African and Asian Independence

Comparing Freedom Struggles• The Case of India: Ending British Rule• The Case of South Africa: Ending Apartheid

Experiments with Freedom• Experiments in Political Order: Comparing African Nations

and India• Experiments in Economic Development: Changing

Priorities, Varying Outcomes• Experiments with Culture: The Role of Islam in Turkey

and Iran

Chapter 23 Independence and Development in the Global

South, 1914–Present• Map 23.1 The End of European Empires (p. 694)• Map 23.2 South Africa after Apartheid (p. 704)• Map 23.3 The “Worlds” of the Twentieth Century (p. 705)• Map 23.4 Political Life in Postindependence Africa (p. 709)• Spot Map 23.1 The Independence of British South Asia (p. 699)• Spot Map 23.2 Iran, Turkey, and the Middle East (p. 715)• Nelson Mandela (p. 690)• Mahatma Gandhi (p. 697)• Independence in Kenya, East Africa (p. 702)• Microloans (p. 714)• Westernization in Turkey (p. 716)• Women and the Iranian Revolution (p. 718)