02113nam 22004093a 450 991083563900332120230124202347.03-7370-0097-2https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737300970(CKB)5860000000009267(ScCtBLL)aca98a8d-e0e6-4b0f-95da-43b77f2f004e(EXLCZ)99586000000000926720220603i20132022 uu enguru||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierOut of Empire : Redefining Africa's Place in the World /Frederick Cooper, Franz Römer, Susanne Weigelin-SchwiedrzikVolume 8[s.l.] :V&R unipress,2013.1 online resource (30 p.)Fakultätsvorträge der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien3-8471-0097-1 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.Fakultätsvorträge der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität WienPolitical Science / Colonialism & Post-colonialismbisacshPolitical sciencePolitical Science / Colonialism & Post-colonialismPolitical scienceCooper FrederickRömer FranzWeigelin-Schwiedrzik SusanneScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910835639003321UNINA