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Africa since 1940 The Past of the Present

Authors

Frederick Cooper
, New York University
Published 2019

Description

Africa since 1940 is the flagship textbook in Cambridge University Press' New Approaches to African History series. Now revised to include the history and scholarship of Africa since the turn of the millennium, this important book continues to help students understand the process out of which Africa's position in the world has emerged. A history of decolonisation and independence, it allows readers to see just what political independence did and did not signify, and how men and women, peasants and…

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  • Ideal for courses on political science and 'Introduction to Africa' courses, and presumes no prior knowledge
  • Revisions to this edition are fully integrated into the existing structure, including new events and recent scholarship
  • Contains more emphasis on the ups and downs of African economies, and on the contrast between the political, social, and economic trajectories of different parts of Africa
  • The existing cases have been updated, and new cases introduced

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