Es mucho lo que se ha escrito sobre la historia de Occidente pero, en el mundo de la globalización, las nuevas migraciones e Internet, es ya indispensable conocer cómo se va configurando el gran continente africano. Frederick Cooper ahonda en el proceso de descolonización e independencia de estos países, y ayuda a entender su desarrollo, sus problemas y su posición en el escenario internacional. Analiza así "la cuestión del desarrollo", cómo los regímenes coloniales y las élites africanas ...

A succinct and comprehensive history of the development of citizenship from the Roman Empire to the present dayCitizenship, Inequality, and Difference offers a concise and sweeping overview of citizenship's complex evolution, from ancient Rome to the present. Political leaders and thinkers still debate, as they did in Republican Rome, whether the presumed equivalence of citizens is compatible with cultural diversity and economic inequality. Frederick Cooper...

A obra de Frederick Cooper ocupa hoje um lugar fulcral na compreensão dos processos imperiais e coloniais. Centrado na história de África no século vinte, Cooper tem conseguido articular os seus objetos de estudo com um conjunto de problemas teóricos e metodológicos investidos de uma dimensão global. É o que acontece nas análises deste livro relativas às questões do trabalho, do Estado colonial e das formas de cidadania, da modernização e do desenvolvimento, da descolonização e da história...

At the Second World War’s end, it was clear that business as usual in colonized Africa would not resume. W. E. B. Du Bois’s The World and Africa, published in 1946, recognized the depth of the crisis that the war had brought to Europe, and hence to Europe’s domination over much of the globe. Du Bois believed that Africa’s past provided lessons for its future, for international statecraft, and for humanity’s mastery of social relations and commerce. Frederick Cooper revisits a hist...

A groundbreaking history of the last days of the French empire in AfricaAs the French public debates its present diversity and its colonial past, few remember that between 1946 and 1960 the inhabitants of French colonies possessed the rights of French citizens. Moreover, they did not have to conform to the French civil code that regulated marriage and inheritance. One could, in principle, be a citizen and different too. Citizenship between Empire and Nation

Africa since 1940 is the flagship textbook in Cambridge University Press' New Approaches to African History series. Now revised to include the history and scholarship of Africa since the turn of the millennium, this important book continues to help students understand the process out of which Africa's position in the world has emerged. A history of decolonisation and independence, it allows readers to see just what political independence did and did not signify, and how men and women, peas...

Ce texte a bouleversé la façon de penser le colonialisme. Plutôt que de raconter les colonisations d'un seul point de vue (celui de la métropole ou celui de la colonie devenue indépendante), Ann Laura Stoler et Frederick Cooper proposent en effet de les englober dans une histoire des empires qui permet d'étudier ensemble, dans leurs interactions réciproques, les dominants et les dominés. Les colonies n'étaient pas des espaces vierges qu'il suffisait de modeler à l'image de l'Europe ou d'ex...

A history of three transnational political projects designed to overcome the inequities of imperialismAfter the dissolution of empires, was the nation-state the only way to unite people politically, culturally, and economically? In Post-Imperial Possibilities, historians Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper examine three large-scale, transcontinental projects aimed at bringing together peoples of different regions to mitigate imperial legacies of inequality. ...

How empires have used diversity to shape the world order for more than two millenniaEmpires—vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition—have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. Empires in World History departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives to take a remarkable look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the global order. Beginning with ancient Rome and China and continuin...

The achievements of the democratic constitutional order have long been associated with the sovereign nation-state. Civic nationalist assumptions hold that social solidarity and social plurality are compatible, offering a path to guarantees of individual rights, social justice, and tolerance for minority voices. Yet today, challenges to the liberal-democratic sovereign nation-state are proliferating on all levels, from multinational corporations and international institutions to populist na...

In this collaborative work, three leading historians explore one of the most significant areas of inquiry in modern historiography — the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition meant for former slaves, former slaveowners, and the societies in which they lived. Their contributions take us beyond the familiar portrait of emancipation as the end of an evil system to consider the questions and the struggles that emerged in freedom’s wake.Thomas Holt focuses on emanci...

Im ersten Band der Reihe werden Schlüsseltexte der international wichtigsten Vertreter der Globalgeschichte erstmals in deutscher Sprache publiziert: Christopher A. Bayly, Charles Bright, Frederick Cooper, Arif Dirlik, Michael Geyer, Christopher L. Hill, Rebecca E. Karl, Erez Manela, Jürgen Osterhammel, Kenneth Pomeranz und Andrew Zimmermann.