The Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History
Editors: Shanguhyia, Martin, Falola, Toyin (Eds.)
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- Provides an invaluable reference for students and scholars of history and African studies
- Includes fifty-two chapters from emerging and established across numerous disciplines in African history and African studies
- Demonstrates how the field of modern African history has evolved and expanded since the mid-twentieth century
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- About this book
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This wide-ranging volume presents the most complete appraisal of modern African history to date. It assembles dozens of new and established scholars to tackle the questions and subjects that define the field, ranging from the economy, the two world wars, nationalism, decolonization, and postcolonial politics to religion, development, sexuality, and the African youth experience. Contributors are drawn from numerous fields in African studies, including art, music, literature, education, and anthropology. The themes they cover illustrate the depth of modern African history and the diversity and originality of lenses available for examining it. Older themes in the field have been treated to an engaging re-assessment, while new and emerging themes are situated as the book’s core strength. The result is a comprehensive, vital picture of where the field of modern African history stands today.
- About the authors
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Martin S. Shanguhyia is Associate Professor of African History in the History Department of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, USA. His most recent book is Population, Tradition, and Environmental Control in Colonial Kenya (2015).
Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He has received seven honorary doctorates in addition to scores of lifetime career awards, and is the author and editor of over a hundred books.
- Table of contents (52 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-39
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Colonialism and the African Environment
Pages 43-80
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Colonial Administrations and the Africans
Pages 81-101
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Slavery in the Colonial State and After
Pages 103-122
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Africans and the Colonial Economy
Pages 123-143
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Table of contents (52 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History
- Editors
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- Martin Shanguhyia
- Toyin Falola
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-59426-6
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-59426-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-59425-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXXI, 1362
- Number of Illustrations
- 12 b/w illustrations
- Topics