The Palgrave handbook of African colonial and postcolonial history
- Publication/Creation:
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- The Palgrave handbook of African colonial and postcolonial history / Martin S. Shanguhyia, Toyin Falola, editors
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- Additional Author/Creators:
- Shanguhyia, Martin S., editor
Falola, Toyin, editor
Subjects/Genre
- Genre:
- Electronic books
Handbooks and manuals - Subjects:
- Colonies--Africa--History--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Postcolonialism--Africa--Handbooks, manuals, etc
African diaspora--History--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Africa--History--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- PART ONE: COLONIAL AFRICA. 1. Introduction -- 2. Colonialism and the African environment -- 3. Colonial administrations and the Africans -- 4. Slavery in the colonial state and after -- 5. Africans and the colonial economy -- 6. African women in colonial economies -- 7. Colonialism and African womanhood -- 8. Administration, economy, and society in the Portuguese African empire (1900-1975) -- 9. Christian evangelization and its legacy -- 10. Colonial education -- 11. Health and medicine in colonial society -- 12. African colonial urban experience -- 13. Africa and the First World War -- 14. Africa and the Second World War -- 15. Colonialism and African migrations -- 16. Colonialism and African childhood -- 17. Literature in colonial Africa -- 18. Art, African identities, and colonialism -- 19. Intensification and attenuation : colonial influences on an African culture -- 20. Youth and popular culture in colonial Africa -- 21. The Horn of Africa and the Black anticolonial imaginary (1896-1915) -- 22. Colonial Africa and the West -- 23. International law, colonialism, and the African -- 24. Colonialism and development in Africa -- 25. Nationalism and African intellectuals -- 16. Decolonization histories -- PART TWO: POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA. 27. Africa and the Cold War -- 28. African politics since independence -- 29. Secession and separatism in modern Africa -- 30. Postcolonial Africa and the West -- 31. The USA and Africa -- 32. Franco-African relations : still exceptional? -- 33. Algeria and France : beyond the Franco-Algerian lens -- 34. China and Africa -- 35. Africa and global financial institutions -- 36. Development history and postcolonial African experience -- 37. African diasporas and postcolonial Africa -- 38. Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 39. The unfinished business of postcolonialism : theological perspectives -- 40. South Africa : apartheid and post-apartheid -- 41. The Pan-African experience : from the Organization of African Unity to the African Union -- 42. Africa and human rights -- 43. Education in postcolonial Africa -- 44. African women and the postcolonial state -- 45. Young people and public space in Africa : past and present -- 46. Colonialism and African sexualities -- 47. Culture, artifacts, and independent Africa : the cultural politics of museums and heritage -- 48. Building the African novel on quick sand : politics of language, identity, and ownership -- 49. Music and postcolonial Africa -- 50. Sports and politics in postcolonial Africa -- 51. Media, society, and the postcolonial state -- 52. Between the diaspora and homeland : the study of Africa and the African diaspora in the USA.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (2 volumes xxxi, 1362 pages) : illustrations, maps
- General Note:
- "Palgrave handbooks"--Cover image.
- Local Note:
- Available to current Emory University students, faculty and staff.
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- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936762515202486
- ISBN:
- 9781137594266
1137594268
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