Africa in the World: Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State

by Frederick Cooper

Book Overview

At the Second World War's end, it was clear that business as usual in colonized Africa would not resume. W. E. B. Du Bois's The World and Africa, published in 1946, recognized the depth of the crisis that the war had brought to Europe, and hence to Europe's domination over much of the globe. Du Bois believed that Africa's past provided lessons for its future, for international statecraft, and for humanity's mastery of social relations and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067428139X
• ISBN13: 9780674281394
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.6"