A World to Make treats a subject that is both complex and controversial. Since the end of the Second World War, and with increasing rapidity in the 1… - Francis X. Sutton

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A World to Make treats a subject that is both complex and controversial. Since the end of the Second World War, and with increasing rapidity in the 1950s and 1960s, Europe's former colonial possessions acquired independence and emerged as new states with new frontiers. That process proved to be immensely difficult both for those who had recently acquired their independence and for those in Latin America and elsewhere who had enjoyed that status for a century or longer.

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Francis Xavier Sutton (July 7, 1917 - Dec. 18, 2012) was an American social scientist, official of the , and business theorist. Sutton received his BA at Temple in 1938, his MA at Princeton in 1940, and his PhD in sociology at Harvard in 1950.

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