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Decolonization and African Society
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Frederick Cooper
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2009
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Cambridge University Press
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9780511584091
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1996
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2009
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10.1017/CBO9780511584091
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Book chapters
pp. xi
Preface
pp. xviii
Map of French and British colonial Africa
pp. 1
Introduction
pp. 23
Introduction
pp. 25
The labor question unposed
pp. 57
Reforming imperialism, 1935–1940
pp. 110
Forced labor, strike movements, and the idea of development, 1940–1945
pp. 167
Conclusion: posing the labor question
pp. 173
Introduction
pp. 176
Imperial plans
pp. 225
Crises
pp. 261
Conclusion: modernity, backwardness, and the colonial state
pp. 273
Introduction
pp. 277
The systematic approach: the French Code du Travail
pp. 323
Family wages and industrial relations in British Africa
pp. 361
Internationalists, intellectuals, and the labor question
pp. 383
Conclusion: labor and the modernizing state
pp. 389
Introduction
pp. 392
The burden of declining empire
pp. 407
Delinking colony and metropole: French Africa in the 1950s
pp. 432
Nation, international trade unionism, and race: anglophone Africa in the 1950s
pp. 451
Conclusion: the social meaning of decolonization
pp. 457
The wages of modernity and the price of sovereignty
pp. 473
Notes
pp. 627
Bibliography
pp. 679
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