LEADER 03396nam 2200601 450 001 9910789286603321 005 20230629171904.0 010 $a0-674-36931-9 010 $a0-674-36930-0 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674369306 035 $a(CKB)3710000000092482 035 $a(EBL)3301421 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001133314 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11676211 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001133314 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11157658 035 $a(PQKB)10858940 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301421 035 $a(DE-B1597)460903 035 $a(OCoLC)871257366 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674369306 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301421 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10846209 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000092482 100 $a20140321h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAfrica in the world $ecapitalism, empire, nation-state /$fFrederick Cooper 205 $aPilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts ;$aLondon, England :$cHarvard University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (145 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-674-28139-X 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tMaps --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$t1. Africa and Capitalism --$t2. Africa and Empire --$t3. Africa and the Nation-State --$tConclusion: Africa in the World, Past, Present, Future --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aAt 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 Reflecting on the vast body of research on Africa since Du Bois's time, Cooper corrects outdated perceptions of a continent often relegated to the margins of world history and integrates its experience into the mainstream of global affairs. 606 $aAfrican diaspora 607 $aAfrica$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aAfrica$xPolitics and government$y20th century 607 $aAfrica$xForeign relations$y20th century 615 0$aAfrican diaspora. 676 $a960.32 700 $aCooper$b Frederick$f1947-$0144285 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789286603321 996 $aAfrica in the world$91322813 997 $aUNINA