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Article: Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa.(Review)(Brief Article)
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Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa. By Frederick Cooper. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 677. $89.95.)
One has come to expect insightful historical analysis from Frederick Cooper, and his latest work does not disappoint. Shifting his focus from the subject of his three previous books, circumstances of East African coastal workers (both enslaved and free), Cooper examines the conceptions of African labor that informed British and French policies in their colonies in Africa. In size, scope, and depth this is a big book, drawing heavily on original research in French and British colonial ...