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  • Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference

    Historical Perspectives

    by Frederick Cooper ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    A succinct and comprehensive history of the development of citizenship from the Roman Empire to the present dayCitizenship, Inequality, and Difference offers a concise and sweeping overview of citizenship's complex evolution, from ancient Rome to the present. Political leaders and thinkers still debate, as they did in Republican Rome, whether the presumed equivalence of citizens is compatible with ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Africa in the World

    Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State

    by Frederick Cooper ...
    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 ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Citizenship between Empire and Nation

    Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960

    by Frederick Cooper ...
    A groundbreaking history of the last days of the French empire in AfricaAs the French public debates its present diversity and its colonial past, few remember that between 1946 and 1960 the inhabitants of French colonies possessed the rights of French citizens. Moreover, they did not have to conform to the French civil code that regulated marriage and inheritance. One could, in principle, be a ... Read more

    $51.89 USD

  • Africa since 1940

    The Past of the Present

    by Frederick Cooper ...
    Series Book 13 - New Approaches to African History
    Africa since 1940 is the flagship textbook in Cambridge University Press' New Approaches to African History series. Now revised to include the history and scholarship of Africa since the turn of the millennium, this important book continues to help students understand the process out of which Africa's position in the world has emerged. A history of decolonisation and independence, it allows ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Post-Imperial Possibilities

    Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia

    by Jane Burbank, Frederick Cooper ...
    A history of three transnational political projects designed to overcome the inequities of imperialismAfter the dissolution of empires, was the nation-state the only way to unite people politically, culturally, and economically? In Post-Imperial Possibilities, historians Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper examine three large-scale, transcontinental projects aimed at bringing together peoples of ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Empires in World History

    Power and the Politics of Difference

    by Jane Burbank, Frederick Cooper ...
    How empires have used diversity to shape the world order for more than two millenniaEmpires—vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition—have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. Empires in World History departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives to take a remarkable look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Beyond Slavery

    Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies

    by Frederick Cooper, Rebecca J. Scott, Thomas Cleveland Holt ...
    In this collaborative work, three leading historians explore one of the most significant areas of inquiry in modern historiography — the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition meant for former slaves, former slaveowners, and the societies in which they lived. Their contributions take us beyond the familiar portrait of emancipation as the end of an evil system to consider the ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism

    by Frederick Cooper, Tsilly Dagan, Rob Howse, Christophe Jaffrelot, Courtney Jung, Michael Karayanni, Patrick Macklem, Jeff Miley, Katharina Pistor, Yüksel Sezgin, Joshua Simon, Alfred Stepan, Nadia Urbinati, Gary Wilder, Emmanuelle Saada ...
    The achievements of the democratic constitutional order have long been associated with the sovereign nation-state. Civic nationalist assumptions hold that social solidarity and social plurality are compatible, offering a path to guarantees of individual rights, social justice, and tolerance for minority voices. Yet today, challenges to the liberal-democratic sovereign nation-state are ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism

    by Frederick Cooper, Tsilly Dagan, Rob Howse, Christophe Jaffrelot, Courtney Jung, Michael Karayanni, Patrick Macklem, Jeff Miley, Katharina Pistor, Yüksel Sezgin, Joshua Simon, Alfred Stepan, Nadia Urbinati, Gary Wilder, Emmanuelle Saada ...
    The achievements of the democratic constitutional order have long been associated with the sovereign nation-state. Civic nationalist assumptions hold that social solidarity and social plurality are compatible, offering a path to guarantees of individual rights, social justice, and tolerance for minority voices. Yet today, challenges to the liberal-democratic sovereign nation-state are ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa

    Dialogues between Past and Present

    by Samantha Balaton-Chrimes, Frederick Cooper, V. Adefemi Isumonah, Cherry Leonardi, Eghosa E. Osaghae, Ramola Ramtohul, Aidan Russell, Nicole Ulrich, Chris Vaughan, Henri-Michel Yéré, John Lonsdale, Solomon M. Gofie ...
    Series series Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series
    Africa, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience. Yet studies of citizenship in Africa have often tended to foreshorten historical time and privilege ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa

    Beyond the Margins

    by Wale Adebanwi, Jane Guyer, John and Jean Comaroff, Maxim Bolt, Michael J. Watts, Peter L Geschiere, Sara S. Berry, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Tristan Oestermann, Adigun Agbaje0, Anne-Maria Makhulu1, Celestin Monga2, David Pratten3, Elisha Elisha Renne4, Frederick Cooper5, Gbemisola Animasawun6, James Ferguson7 ...
    What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities and constraints placed on living, livelihoods and sustainable life on the continent. Reflecting on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Principles of Scientific Management

    Enriched edition.

    by Frederick Winslow Taylor, Cooper Black ...
    In "The Principles of Scientific Management," Frederick Winslow Taylor presents a groundbreaking exploration of efficiency in industrial processes, advocating for a systematic approach to workforce management. Through detailed analysis and empirical data, Taylor articulates his principles of standardization, time studies, and the division of labor, all framed within the burgeoning context of early ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus