Cooper, Frederick, 1947-

Colonialism in question : theory, knowledge, history / Frederick Cooper. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005. - xii, 327 p. : 1 map ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-311) and index.

Contents;
List of Illustrations;
Acknowledgments;
Part I. Colonial Studies and Interdisciplinary Scholarship;
1. Introduction: Colonial Questions, Historical Trajectories;
2. The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Colonial Studies, 1951/2001;
Part II. Concepts in Question ;
3. Identity (with Rogers Brubaker);
4. Globalization;
5. Modernity;
Part III. The Possibilities of History;
6. States, Empires, and Political Imagination;
7. Labor, Politics, and the End of Empire in French Africa;
Part IV. Conclusion;
8. Colonialism, History, Politics;
Index.


0520242149 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780520244146

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Decolonization--Historiography.--Africa
Imperialism--Historiography.
Decolonization--Historiography.


Africa--Colonization--Historiography.

DT30 / .C5953 2005

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