Title Colonialism in question : theory, knowledge, history / Frederick Cooper

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 327 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction : colonial questions, historical trajectories -- The rise, fall, and rise of colonial studies, 1951/2001 -- Identity / with Rogers Brubaker -- Globalization -- Modernity -- States, empires, and political imagination -- Labor, politics, and the end of empire in French Africa -- Colonialism, history, politics Summary In this closely integrated collection of essays on colonialism in world history, Frederick Cooper raises crucial questions about concepts relevant to a wide range of issues in the social sciences and humanities, including identity, globalization, and modernity. Rather than portray the past two centuries as the inevitable movement from empire to nation-state, Cooper places nationalism within a much wider range of imperial and diasporic imaginations, of rulers and ruled alike, well into the twentieth century. He addresses both the insights and the blind spots of colonial studies in an effort to get beyond the tendency in the field to focus on a generic colonialism located sometime between 1492 and the 1960s and somewhere in the "West." Broad-ranging, cogently argued, and with a historical focus that moves from Africa to South Asia to Europe, these essays, most published here for the first time, propose a fuller engagement in the give-and-take of history, not least in the ways in which concepts usually attributed to Western universalism--including citizenship and equality--were defined and reconfigured by political mobilizations in colonial contexts Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-311) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Decolonization -- Africa -- Historiography Imperialism -- Historiography Decolonization -- Historiography SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. HISTORY -- World. Colonization -- Historiography Decolonization -- Historiography Imperialism -- Historiography Kolonialismus Kolonialisme. Geschiedschrijving. Imperialism. Avkolonisering. Decolonization -- Africa -- Historiography. Imperialism -- Historiography. Decolonization -- Historiography. SUBJECT Africa -- Colonization -- Historiography Subject Africa Afrika Africa -- Colonization -- Historiography. Form Electronic book Author Brubaker, Rogers, 1956- author. LC no. 2004021043 ISBN 9780520938618 0520938615 1598755242 9781598755244 1282445758 9781282445758 1417593288 9781417593286 9786612445750 6612445750 0520244141 9780520244146

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