Out of empire : : redefining Africa's place in the world / / Frederick Cooper.
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; s...
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| Superior document: | Fakultätsvorträge der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien ; 8 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Göttingen : : V&R unipress,, [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Fakultätsvorträge der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (30 pages). |
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| Other title: | Out of Empire |
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| Summary: | 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. |
| ISBN: | 3737000972 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Frederick Cooper. |