The Darker Nations: A Biography of the Short-lived Third World by Vijay Prashad

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Here, from a brilliant young writer, is a paradigm-shifting history of both a utopian concept and global movement ”the idea of the Third World. The Darker Nations traces the intellectual origins and the political history of the twentieth century attempt to knit together the world’s impoverished countries in opposition to the United States and Soviet spheres of influence in the decades following World War II.