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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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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Colonial Africa
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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