l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Professor

New York University, New York

fred.cooper@nyu.edu

Department of History
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York, New York 10012 USA

phone: 212-998-8606
fax: 212 995-4017

East Africa

20th century African history, colonization and decolonization, labor
history, the social sciences and the colonial world

Books

2002 Africa since 1940: the past of the present. Cambridge,
UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

1996 Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French
and British Africa. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Co-editor of:

2000 With Rebecca Scott and Thomas Holt. Beyond Slavery: Explorations
of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies. Chapel
Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

1997 With Ann Stoler. Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures
in a Bourgeois World. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

1997 With Randall Packard. International Development and
the Social Sciences: Essays in the History and Politics of Knowledge.
Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

Articles:

2002 "Networks, Moral Discourse, and History." Pp. 23-46 in Thomas
Callaghy, Ronald Kassimir, and Robert Latham, eds., Intervention and
Transnationalism in Africa. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

2001 "What Is the Concept of Globalization Good For? An African
Historian's Perspective." African Affairs, 100 (2001): 189-213.

2000 "Africa's Pasts and Africa's Historians." Canadian Journal of
African Studies 34 (2000): 298-336.

slavery ; colonization ; decolonization ; labor history ; social sciences ; colonial world.