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Autore |
Cooper Frederick |
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Out of Empire : : Redefining Africa's Place in the World / / Frederick Cooper, Franz Römer, Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik . Volume 8 |
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[s.l.] : , : V&R unipress, , 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (30 p.) |
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Fakultätsvorträge der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien |
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Political Science / Colonialism & Post-colonialism |
Political science |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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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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