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caesura

many felt that the step had been premature, that neither would Britain al­low such a caesura, nor could India survive on its own

oooh really cool use of the term

—p.33 Bandung (31) by Vijay Prashad
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unctuous

Neither armed struggle nor unctuous petitions dampened the confidence of colonial­ism.

—p.12 Paris (3) by Vijay Prashad
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neocolonialism

what the Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah called "neocolonialism," or domination by means other than territorial conquest.

—p.10 Paris (3) by Vijay Prashad
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internecine

Internecine war­fare, a failure to control the prices of primary commodities, an inability to overcome the suffocation of finance capital, and more led to a crisis in the budgets of much of the Third World.

—p.xviii Introduction (xv) by Vijay Prashad
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trammeled

their desire for untrammeled profit was hampered by lingering patriotism or the type of political and economic regimes established by national liberation.

—p.xviii Introduction (xv) by Vijay Prashad
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