The Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History

ISBN-13: 9781137594259 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 1362 str.

Martin S. Shanguhyia; Toyin Falola

Opis

This wide-ranging volume presents the most complete appraisal of modern African history to date.

Spis treści

1. Introduction

I. Colonial Africa

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 Identity, 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

26. Decolonization Histories

II. Postcolonial Africa

27. Africa and the Cold War

28. African Politics since Independence

29. Secession and Separatism in Modern Africa

30. Post-Colonial Africa and the West

31. United States 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. The African Diaspora 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, Artefacts 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 Diaspora and Homeland: The Study of African and the African Diaspora in the United States

O autorze

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.

   

Blurb

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.