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Decolonization and African society: the labor question in French and British Africa

By Frederick Cooper

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
9780521562515, 9780521566001, 9780511089640
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
168 MB (176526103 bytes)
Series
ACLS Fellows’ Publications
Pages
697\695
Library
Fulcrum
Time added
2023-06-15 05:49:13

Description

This authoritative volume changes our conceptions of "imperial" and "African" history. Frederick Cooper gathers a vast range of archival sources to achieve a truly comparative study of colonial policy toward African labor forces. He shows how African trade union and political leaders used the new language of social change to claim equality and a share of power. In the end, Britain and France could not reshape African society. As they left the continent, the question was how they had affected the ways in which Africans could reorganize society themselves.

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