The Palgrave handbook of African colonial and postcolonial history. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: African colonial and postcolonial history
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Martin S. Shanguhyia, Toyin Falola.
• Editors: Shanguhyia, Martin S; Falola, Toyin
• Contents: 1. Introduction I. Colonial Africa 2. Colonialism and the African Environment 3. Colonial Administrations and the Africans 4. Slavery in the Colonial State and After 5. Africans and the Colonial Economy 6. African Women in Colonial Economies 7. Colonialism and African Womanhood 8. Administration, Economy, and Society in the Portuguese African Empire (1900–1975) 9. Christian Evangelization and Its Legacy 10. Colonial Education 11. Health and Medicine in Colonial Society 12. African Colonial Urban Experience 13. Africa and the First World War 14. Africa and the Second World War 15. Colonialism and African Migrations16. Colonialism and African Childhood 17. Literature in Colonial Africa 18. Art, African Identity, and Colonialism 19. Intensification and Attenuation: Colonial Influences on an African Culture 20. Youth and Popular Culture in Colonial Africa 21. The Horn of Africa and the Black Anticolonial Imaginary: 1896–1915 22. Colonial Africa and the West 23. International Law, Colonialism, and the African 24. Colonialism and Development in Africa 25. Nationalism and African Intellectuals 26. Decolonization Histories II. Postcolonial Africa 27. Africa and the Cold War 28. African Politics since Independence 29. Secession and Separatism in Modern Africa 30. Post-Colonial Africa and the West 31. United States and Africa 32. Franco-African Relations: Still Exceptional? 33. Algeria and France: Beyond the Franco-Algerian Lens 34. China and Africa 35. Africa and Global Financial Institutions 36. Development History and Postcolonial African Experience 37. The African Diaspora and Postcolonial Africa 38. Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa 39. The Unfinished Business of Postcolonialism: Theological Perspectives 40. South Africa: Apartheid and Post-Apartheid 41. The Pan-African Experience: From the Organization of African Unity to the African Union 42. Africa and Human Rights 43. Education in Postcolonial Africa 44. African Women and the Postcolonial State 45. Young People and Public Space in Africa: Past and Present 46. Colonialism and African Sexualities 47. Culture, Artefacts and Independent Africa: The Cultural Politics of Museums and Heritage 48. Building the African Novel on Quick Sand: Politics of Language, Identity and Ownership 49. Music and Postcolonial Africa 50. Sports and Politics in Postcolonial Africa 51. Media, Society, and the Postcolonial State 52. Between Diaspora and Homeland: The Study of African and the African Diaspora in the United States.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 960; History; History -- Africa -- General; History -- Modern -- General; History -- Social History; African history; History: earliest times to present day; Social & cultural history; Imperialism; Africa-History; History, Modern; Social history; History -- General; Colonialism & imperialism; Africa -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137594266
• Related ISBNs: 9781137594259
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