Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 677 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1996
ISBN:
9780511584091
Series Statement:
African studies 89
Content:
This detailed and authoritative volume changes our conceptions of 'imperial' and 'African' history. Frederick Cooper gathers a vast range of archival sources in French and English to achieve a truly comparative study of colonial policy toward the recruitment, control, and institutionalization of African labor forces from the mid 1930s, when the labor question was first posed, to the late 1950s, when decolonization was well under way. Professor Cooper explores colonial conceptions of the African worker and shows how African trade union and political leaders used the new language of social change to claim equality and a share of power. This helped to persuade European officials that the 'modern' Africa they imagined was unaffordable. Britain and France could not reshape African society. As they left the continent, the question was how they had affected the ways in which Africans could reorganize society themselves.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521566001
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521562515
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Cooper, Frederick, 1947 - Decolonization and African society Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 1996 ISBN 0521562511
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521566002
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
Afrika
;
Entkolonialisierung
;
Gesellschaft
;
Frankophones Afrika
;
Soziale Frage
;
Anglophones Afrika
;
Soziale Frage
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511584091
URL:
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Author information:
Cooper, Frederick 1947-
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