Out of empire : redefining Africa's place in the world / Frederick Cooper
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Superior document: | Fakultätsvorträge der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien Heft 8 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Göttingen : Vienna University Press, V&R unipress, 2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Fakultätsvorträge der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien
Heft 8 Veröffentlichungen der Vienna University Press |
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Classification: | 15.91 - Nordafrika 15.92 - Afrika südlich der Sahara 89.91 - Imperialismus |
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Physical Description: | 30 Seiten |
Notes: | The history of decolonization is usually written backward, as if the end-point (a world of juridically equivalent nation-states) was known from the start. But the routes out of colonial empire appear more varied. Some Africans sought equal rights within empire, others to federate among themselves; some sought independence. In London or Paris, officials realized they had to reform colonial empires, but not necessarily give them up. The idea of "development" became a way to assert that empires could be made both more productive and more legitimate. Frederick Cooper explores how these alternative possibilities narrowed between 1945 and approximately 1960. |
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