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Decolonization of Africa: Books from the Catalog

State Failure, Sovereignty and Effectiveness: legal lessons from the decolonization of Sub-Saharan Africa by Gerard Kreijen
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781429408202
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
This comprehensive study of State failure upholds that the collapse of States in sub-Saharan Africa is a self-inflicted problem caused by the abandonment of the principle of effectiveness during decolonization.
The Short Century by Okwui Enwezor
Call Number: NX 587 .S46 2001
ISBN: 3791325027
Publication Date: 2001-04-01
This is a broad survey of cultural life in Africa from the independence movements through the post-colonial era to the end of apartheid in 1994.
The Decolonization Reader by James D. Le Sueur (Editor)
Call Number: JV 151 .D36 2003
ISBN: 0415231167
Publication Date: 2003-08-05
Grouped around the most salient themes, this compilation includes discussions of metropolitan politics, gender, sexuality, race, culture, nationalism and economy, and offers a comparative and interdisciplinary assessment of decolonization. The process of decolonization transformed colonial and European metropolitan societies culturally, politically and economically. Its legacy continues to affect postcolonial politics as well as cultural and intellectual life in Europe and its former colonies and overseas territories. The Decolonization Readerwill provide scholars and students with a thorough understanding of the impact of decolonization on world history and cross-cultural encounters worldwide.
Britain, France and the decolonization of Africa : future imperfect?
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 1911307762
Publication Date: 2017
Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of 'late colonial shift' after 1945.
African Intellectuals and Decolonization by Nicholas Creary (General Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780896802834
Publication Date: 2012-10-04
Decades after independence for most African states, the struggle for decolonization is still incomplete, as demonstrated by the fact that Africa remains associated in many Western minds with chaos, illness, and disorder. African and non-African scholars alike still struggle to establish the idea of African humanity, in all its diversity, and to move Africa beyond its historical role as the foil to the West.
Algeria by Martin Evans
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780191617300
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers, Algeria was different from other French colonies because it was administered as an integral part of France, in theory no different from Normandy or Brittany. The depth and scale of the colonization process explains why the Algerian War of 1954 to 1962 was one of the longest and most violent of the decolonization struggles.