Out of Empire
V&R unipress, 2013
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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.
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Out of Empire
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Cooper, Frederick ; Römer, Franz ; Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Susanne |
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Veröffentlichung: | V&R unipress, 2013 |
Medientyp: | E-Book |
ISBN: | 978-3-7370-0097-0 (print) |
DOI: | 10.14220/9783737300970 |
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