UID:
almahu_9949525948702882
Format:
30pp.;
Edition:
1st edition
ISBN:
9783737000970
Series Statement:
Fakultätsvorträge der Philologisch- Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien
Content:
Abstract 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.
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783847100973
Language:
English
DOI:
10.14220/9783737000970
URL:
https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737000970
URL:
https://www.vr-elibrary.de/action/showBook?doi=10.14220%2F9783737000970