Frederick Cooper''s latest book on the history of decolonization
and independence in Africa initiates a new textbook series: New
Approaches to African History. This text will help students
understand the historical process out of which Africa''s current
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.
目錄:
1. Introduction: From colonies to third world
2. Workers, peasants, and the crisis of colonialism
3. Citizenship, self-government, and development: the possibilities
of the post-war moment
4. Ending empire and imagining the future; Interlude: rhythms of
change in the post-war world
5. Development and disappointment: social and economic change in an
unequal world
6. The late decolonizations: Southern Africa, 1975, 1979,
1994
7. The recurrent crises of the gatekeeper state
8. Africa at the century''s turn: Rwanda, South Africa, and
beyond.