03396nam 2200601 450 991078928660332120230629171904.00-674-36931-90-674-36930-010.4159/9780674369306(CKB)3710000000092482(EBL)3301421(SSID)ssj0001133314(PQKBManifestationID)11676211(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001133314(PQKBWorkID)11157658(PQKB)10858940(MiAaPQ)EBC3301421(DE-B1597)460903(OCoLC)871257366(DE-B1597)9780674369306(Au-PeEL)EBL3301421(CaPaEBR)ebr10846209(EXLCZ)99371000000009248220140321h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrAfrica in the world capitalism, empire, nation-state /Frederick CooperPilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries onlyCambridge, Massachusetts ;London, England :Harvard University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (145 p.)Includes index.0-674-28139-X Front matter --Contents --Maps --Preface --Introduction --1. Africa and Capitalism --2. Africa and Empire --3. Africa and the Nation-State --Conclusion: Africa in the World, Past, Present, Future --Notes --IndexAt the Second World War's end, it was clear that business as usual in colonized Africa would not resume. W. E. B. Du Bois's The World and Africa, published in 1946, recognized the depth of the crisis that the war had brought to Europe, and hence to Europe's domination over much of the globe. Du Bois believed that Africa's past provided lessons for its future, for international statecraft, and for humanity's mastery of social relations and commerce. Frederick Cooper revisits a history in which Africans were both empire-builders and the objects of colonization, and participants in the events that gave rise to global capitalism. Of the many pathways out of empire that African leaders envisioned in the 1940's and 1950's, Cooper asks why they ultimately followed the one that led to the nation-state, a political form whose limitations and dangers were recognized by influential Africans at the time. Cooper takes account of the central fact of Africa's situation--extreme inequality between Africa and the western world, and extreme inequality within African societies--and considers the implications of this past trajectory for the future. Reflecting on the vast body of research on Africa since Du Bois's time, Cooper corrects outdated perceptions of a continent often relegated to the margins of world history and integrates its experience into the mainstream of global affairs.African diasporaAfricaHistory20th centuryAfricaPolitics and government20th centuryAfricaForeign relations20th centuryAfrican diaspora.960.32Cooper Frederick1947-144285MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789286603321Africa in the world1322813UNINA