The Discovery of the Third World: Decolonization and the Rise of the New Left in France, c.1950–1976

This book provides an innovative account of how the concept of the 'Third World' emerged in France among leftist intellectuals in the 1950s and was subsequently used in the 1960s and 1970s as a key term, both in struggles to position France within the globalizing world and in conflicts about social reform within France itself.