Africa in the world : capitalism, empire, nation-state / Frederick Cooper.

ISBN:

9780674369306

Title:

Author:

Cooper, Frederick, 1947- author.

Personal Author:

Cooper, Frederick, 1947- author.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 130 pages) : illustrations

General Note:

"The origins of this book lie in an invitation to deliver the McMillan-Stewart Lectures at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute of Harvard University. The three lectures that became the book's core chapters were presented in February 2012."

Contents:

Africa and capitalism -- Africa and empire -- Africa and the nation-state -- Conclusion: Africa in the world, past, present, and future.

Local Note:

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Subject Term:

African diaspora.

Geographic Term:

Africa -- History -- 20th century.

Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century.

Africa -- Foreign relations -- 20th century.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2014

Publication Information:

Cambridge, Massachusetts :

Harvard University Press,

2014.

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Summary

Of the many pathways out of empire, why did African leaders follow the one that led to the nation-state, whose dangers were recognized by Africans in the 1940s and 50s? Frederick Cooper revisits a long history in which Africans were empire-builders, the objects of colonization, and participants in events that gave rise to global capitalism.

Author Notes

Cooper Frederick :

Frederick Cooper is Professor of History at New York University.