UID:
edocfu_9961431802402883
Format:
1 online resource (30 pages).
ISBN:
3-7370-0097-2
Series Statement:
Fakultätsvorträge der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien ; 8
Content:
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:
ISBN 3-8471-0097-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783737300970
Language:
English
