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Author | : Frederick Cooper |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2002-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107651344 |
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Frederick Cooper's book on the history of decolonization and independence in Africa is part of the textbook series New Approaches to African History. This text will help students understand the historical process out of which Africa's position in the world has emerged. Bridging the divide between colonial and post-colonial history, it allows readers to see just what political independence did and did not signify and how men and women, peasants and workers, religious leaders and local leaders sought to refashion the way they lived, worked, and interacted with each other.
Author | : Frederick Cooper |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2002-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521776004 |
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Author | : Frederick Cooper |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2014-03-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674369319 |
Download Africa in the World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
At the Second World War’s end, it was clear that business as usual in colonized Africa would not resume. W. E. B. Du Bois’s The World and Africa, published in 1946, recognized the depth of the crisis that the war had brought to Europe, and hence to Europe’s domination over much of the globe. Du Bois believed that Africa’s past provided lessons for its future, for international statecraft, and for humanity’s mastery of social relations and commerce. Frederick Cooper revisits a history in which Africans were both empire-builders and the objects of colonization, and participants in the events that gave rise to global capitalism. Of the many pathways out of empire that African leaders envisioned in the 1940s and 1950s, Cooper asks why they ultimately followed the one that led to the nation-state, a political form whose limitations and dangers were recognized by influential Africans at the time. Cooper takes account of the central fact of Africa’s situation—extreme inequality between Africa and the western world, and extreme inequality within African societies—and considers the implications of this past trajectory for the future. Reflecting on the vast body of research on Africa since Du Bois’s time, Cooper corrects outdated perceptions of a continent often relegated to the margins of world history and integrates its experience into the mainstream of global affairs.
Author | : J. D. Fage |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1052 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521224093 |
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The eighth and final volume of The Cambridge History of Africa covers the period 1940-75. It begins with a discussion of the role of the Second World War in the political decolonisation of Africa. Its terminal date of 1975 coincides with the retreat of Portugal, the last European colonial power in Africa, from its possessions and their accession to independence. The fifteen chapters which make up this volume examine on both a continental and regional scale the extent to which formal transfer of political power by the European colonial rulers also involved economic, social and cultural decolonisation. A major theme of the volume is the way the African successors to the colonial rulers dealt with their inheritance and how far they benefited particular economic groups and disadvantaged others. The contributors to this volume represent different disciplinary traditions and do not share a single theoretical perspective on the recent history of the continent, a subject that is still the occasion for passionate debate.
Author | : Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation |
Publisher | : Guggenheim Museum |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003-07 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9780892072828 |
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Essays by Okwui Enwezor, Olu Oguibe, and Octavio Zaya. Introduction by Clare Bell.
Author | : John Parker |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2007-03-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192802488 |
Download African History: A Very Short Introduction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.
Author | : Frederick Cooper |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 702 |
Release | : 1996-08-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521566001 |
Download Decolonization and African Society Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This detailed and authoritative volume changes our conceptions of 'imperial' and 'African' history. Frederick Cooper gathers a vast range of archival sources in French and English to achieve a truly comparative study of colonial policy toward the recruitment, control, and institutionalization of African labor forces from the mid 1930s, when the labor question was first posed, to the late 1950s, when decolonization was well under way. Professor Cooper explores colonial conceptions of the African worker and shows how African trade union and political leaders used the new language of social change to claim equality and a share of power. This helped to persuade European officials that the 'modern' Africa they imagined was unaffordable. Britain and France could not reshape African society. As they left the continent, the question was how they had affected the ways in which Africans could reorganize society themselves.
Author | : Judith Ann-Marie Byfield |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 565 |
Release | : 2015-04-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110705320X |
Download Africa and World War II Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume offers a fresh perspective on Africa's central role in the Allied victory in World War II. Its detailed case studies, from all parts of Africa, enable us to understand how African communities sustained the Allied war effort and how they were transformed in the process. Together, the chapters provide a continent-wide perspective.
Author | : Frederick Cooper |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2014-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469617374 |
Download Beyond Slavery Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this collaborative work, three leading historians explore one of the most significant areas of inquiry in modern historiography--the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition meant for former slaves, former slaveowners, and the societies in which they lived. Their contributions take us beyond the familiar portrait of emancipation as the end of an evil system to consider the questions and the struggles that emerged in freedom's wake. Thomas Holt focuses on emancipation in Jamaica and the contested meaning of citizenship in defining and redefining the concept of freedom; Rebecca Scott investigates the complex struggles and cross-racial alliances that evolved in southern Louisiana and Cuba after the end of slavery; and Frederick Cooper examines the intersection of emancipation and imperialism in French West Africa. In their introduction, the authors address issues of citizenship, labor, and race, in the post-emancipation period and they point the way toward a fuller understanding of the meanings of freedom.
Author | : Keith Somerville |
Publisher | : Penguin Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2017-01-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780141984094 |
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'A superb book...genuinely innovative' Jack Spence OBE, King's College London Over the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many. Histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing process of decolonization and state-building, conflict, economic problems but also progress and the perpetual interplay of structure and agency. This new view of those histories looks in particular at the relationship between territorial, economic, political and societal structures and human agency in the complex and sometimes confusing development of an independent Africa. The story starts well before the granting of independence to Ghana in 1957, but the book also looks at Africa in the closing decades of the old millennium and opening ones of the new. This is a book, too, about the history of the peoples of Africa and their struggle for economic development against the global economic straitjacket into which they were strapped by colonial rule and decolonisation. The importance of imposed or inherited structures, whether the global capitalist system, of which Africa is a subordinate part, or the artificial and often inappropriate state borders and political systems is discussed in the light of the exercise of agency by African peoples, political movements and leaders.