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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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Out of Empire, Frederick Cooper
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- 2013
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- Title
- Out of Empire
- Subtitle
- Redefining Africa’s Place in the World
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Frederick Cooper
- Publisher
- Vienna Univ. Press, V & R Unipress
- Released
- 2013
- ISBN10
- 3847100971
- ISBN13
- 9783847100973
- Category
- Political Science / Politics
- Description
- 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.