Presents a comprehensive overview of African colonial and postcolonial history

Provides an invaluable reference for students and scholars of history and African studies

Includes fifty-two chapters from emerging and established across numerous disciplines in African history and African studies

Demonstrates how the field of modern African history has evolved and expanded since the mid-twentieth century

Autorentext
Martin S. Shanguhyia is Associate Professor of African History in the History Department of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, USA. His most recent book is Population, Tradition, and Environmental Control in Colonial Kenya (2015).
Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He has received seven honorary doctorates in addition to scores of lifetime career awards, and is the author and editor of over a hundred books.

Klappentext
This wide-ranging volume presents the most complete appraisal of modern African history to date. It assembles dozens of new and established scholars to tackle the questions and subjects that define the field, ranging from the economy, the two world wars, nationalism, decolonization, and postcolonial politics to religion, development, sexuality, and the African youth experience. Contributors are drawn from numerous fields in African studies, including art, music, literature, education, and anthropology. The themes they cover illustrate the depth of modern African history and the diversity and originality of lenses available for examining it. Older themes in the field have been treated to an engaging re-assessment, while new and emerging themes are situated as the book's core strength. The result is a comprehensive, vital picture of where the field of modern African history stands today.

Inhalt

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 (19001975)
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
16. Literature in Colonial Africa
17. Art, African Identity, and Colonialism
18. Intensification and Attenuation: Colonial Influences on an African Culture
19. Youth and Popular Culture in Colonial Africa
20. The Horn of Africa and the Black Anticolonial Imaginary: 18961915
21. Colonial Africa and the West
22. International Law, Colonialism, and the African
23. Colonialism and Development in Africa
24. Nationalism and African Intellectuals
25. Decolonization Histories
    II. Postcolonial Africa
26. Africa and the Cold War
27. African Politics since Independence
28. Secession and Separatism in Modern Africa
29. Post-Colonial Africa and the West
30. United States and Africa
31. Franco-African Relations: Still Exceptional?
32. Algeria and France: Beyond the Franco-Algerian Lens
33. China and Africa
34. Africa and Global Financial Institutions
35. Development History and Postcolonial African Experience
36. The African Diaspora and Postcolonial Africa
37. Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa
38. The Unfinished Business of Postcolonialism: Theological Perspectives
39. South Africa: Apartheid and Post-Apartheid
40. The Pan-African Experience: From the Organization of African Unity to the African Union
41. Africa and Human Rights
42. Education in Postcolonial Africa
43. African Women and the Postcolonial State
44. Young People and Public Space in Africa: Past and Present
45. Colonialism and African Sexualities
46. Culture, Artefacts and Independent Africa: The Cultural Politics of Museums and Heritage
47. Building the African Novel on Quick Sand: Politics of Language, Identity and Ownership
48. Music an...