Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Abbreviations Introduction Intelligence Providers and the Fabric of the Late Colonial State; M.Thomas Southeast Asian Elites and the Construction of the 'Nation'; P.Kratoska Dutch Elites and the End of Empire in Indonesia; M.Frey Emerging Business Elites in Newly Independent Indonesia; J.T.Lindblad Elites as the Least Common Denominator: The Ambivalent Place of French Schools in Lebanon in the Process of Decolonization; E.Möller Alternatives to Nationalism: The Political Imagination of Elites in French West Africa, 1945-1960; F.Cooper Verwoerdian Apartheid and African Political Elites in South Africa, 1950-1968; C.Marx Chieftaincies and Chiefs in Northern Namibia: Intermediaries of Power between Traditionalism, Modernisation and Democratisation; M.Bollig Nehru - the Dilemmas of a Colonial Inheritance; J.Brown Sekou Touré and the Management of Elites in Guinea; M.S.MacDonald Julius Nyerere and the Project of African Socialism; A.Eckert The United States, Decolonization and the Education of Third World elites; C.Unger The Soviet Union and the Socialist camp: Elite formation for the Third World; A.Hilger Notes Bibliography Index