Chapter 22 (The global south on the global stage)
European colonies in the Americas threw off British,French,Spanish or Portuguese rule during the late eighteenth centuries the new nations of the twentieth century claimed an international status equivalent to that of their former rulers Empires without attack from highly nationalism governments U.S presence was one factor stimulating the Mexican Revolution South Africa struggle for freedom it been independent of Great Britain since 1910 it have been granted by by a government controlled by white settler minority