Out of Empire : Redefining Africa's Place in the World (Volume 8)

• Tác giả: Frederick Cooper, Franz Römer, Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Thông tin xuất bản: V&R unipress, 2013
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 240878
• Chủ đề: 1. Colonialism & imperialism

Tóm tắt

 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.