"The Third World was not a place," argues Vijay Prashad.
The Darker Nations traces the intellectual origins and the political history of the 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, as nation after nation across Asia, Africa and South. " This book is a paradigm-shifting history of both a utopian concept and global movement-the idea of the Third World. "It was a project. "The Third World was not a place," argues Vijay Prashad