Overview
- Presents a comprehensive overview of African colonial and postcolonial history
- 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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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.
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Keywords
- history of modern Africa
- postcolonial Africa
- colonial Africa
- gender in Africa
- African youth culture
- African nationalism
- African development
- European colonialism
- African slavery
- colonial economic history
- Portuguese Africa
- African migration
- African environmental history
- The Black Atlantic
- Franco-African relations
- global financial institutions in Africa
- African diaspora
Table of contents (52 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Colonial Africa
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History
Editors: Martin S. Shanguhyia, Toyin Falola
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59426-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59425-9Published: 28 January 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59426-6Published: 28 January 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 1362
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Imperialism and Colonialism, African History, Modern History, Social History