Frederick Cooper is Professor of History at New York University.
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 commerce. Frederick Cooper revisits a history in which Africans were both empire-builders and the objects of colonization, and participants in the events that gave rise to global capitalism.
Of the many pathways out of empire that African leaders envisioned in the 1940s and 1950s, Cooper asks why they ultimately followed the one that led to the nation-state, a political form whose limitations and dangers were recognized by influential Africans at the time. Cooper takes account of the central fact of Africa's situation--extreme inequality between Africa and the western world, and extreme inequality within African societies--and considers the implications of this past trajectory for the future. Reflecting on the vast body of research on Africa since Du Bois's time, Cooper corrects outdated perceptions of a continent often relegated to the margins of world history and integrates its experience into the mainstream of global affairs.
發表於2024-12-23
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圖書標籤: 非洲史 非洲 弗雷德裏剋·庫珀 帝國 曆史 世界史
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評分還是比較中肯的評價,從曆史角度梳理瞭非洲與資本主義,帝國和國傢的關係,突齣瞭africa當地和殖民前的非洲帝國(Asante,Ghana和現在的加納不同地域,Mali等)在麵對資本主義和殖民過程中的抵抗和適應,在不同的地方有不同的策略和社會架構,總之,非洲現在的狀況不能完全歸於殖民也不能完全歸責於當地政府的尋租行為或者精英階層,而是一個相互作用,在一定程度上仍延續曆史權力關係的全球體係下的産物。
評分還是比較中肯的評價,從曆史角度梳理瞭非洲與資本主義,帝國和國傢的關係,突齣瞭africa當地和殖民前的非洲帝國(Asante,Ghana和現在的加納不同地域,Mali等)在麵對資本主義和殖民過程中的抵抗和適應,在不同的地方有不同的策略和社會架構,總之,非洲現在的狀況不能完全歸於殖民也不能完全歸責於當地政府的尋租行為或者精英階層,而是一個相互作用,在一定程度上仍延續曆史權力關係的全球體係下的産物。
評分還是比較中肯的評價,從曆史角度梳理瞭非洲與資本主義,帝國和國傢的關係,突齣瞭africa當地和殖民前的非洲帝國(Asante,Ghana和現在的加納不同地域,Mali等)在麵對資本主義和殖民過程中的抵抗和適應,在不同的地方有不同的策略和社會架構,總之,非洲現在的狀況不能完全歸於殖民也不能完全歸責於當地政府的尋租行為或者精英階層,而是一個相互作用,在一定程度上仍延續曆史權力關係的全球體係下的産物。
評分還是比較中肯的評價,從曆史角度梳理瞭非洲與資本主義,帝國和國傢的關係,突齣瞭africa當地和殖民前的非洲帝國(Asante,Ghana和現在的加納不同地域,Mali等)在麵對資本主義和殖民過程中的抵抗和適應,在不同的地方有不同的策略和社會架構,總之,非洲現在的狀況不能完全歸於殖民也不能完全歸責於當地政府的尋租行為或者精英階層,而是一個相互作用,在一定程度上仍延續曆史權力關係的全球體係下的産物。
Africa in the World 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載