Out of Empire Redefining Africa's Place in the World (Volume 8)

• Autor principal: Cooper, Frederick (auth)
• Outros Autores: Römer, Franz (Editor), Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Susanne (Editor)
• Formato: Recurso Eletrônico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: 2013
• Assuntos: Colonialism & imperialism; Political Science; Colonialism & Post-colonialism
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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; s...