The African colonial state in comparative perspective / Crawford Young.
1994
JV246 .Y68 1994eb
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Title
The African colonial state in comparative perspective / Crawford Young.
Author
ISBN
0585382786 (electronic bk.)
9780585382784 (electronic bk.)
9780300164473 (electronic bk.)
0300164475 (electronic bk.)
0300058020 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780300058024 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0300068794
9780585382784 (electronic bk.)
9780300164473 (electronic bk.)
0300164475 (electronic bk.)
0300058020 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780300058024 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0300068794
Imprint
New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1994.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 356 pages)
Call Number
JV246 .Y68 1994eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)49414696
Summary
In this comprehensive and original study, a distinguished specialist and scholar of African affairs argues that the current crisis in African development can be traced directly to European colonial rule, which left the continent with a "singularly difficult legacy" that is unique in modern history. Crawford Young proposes a new conception of the state, weighing the different characteristics of earlier European empires (including those of Holland, Portugal, England, and Venice) and distilling their common qualities. He then presents a concise and wide-ranging history of colonization in Africa, from the era of construction through consolidation and decolonization. Young argues that several qualities combined to make the European colonial experience in Africa distinctive. The high number of nations competing for power around the continent and the necessity to achieve effective occupation swiftly yet make the colonies self-financing drove colonial powers toward policies of "ruthless extractive action." The persistent, virulent racism that established a distance between rulers and subjects was especially central to African colonial history. Young concludes by turning his sights to other regions of the once-colonized world, comparing the fates of former African colonies to their counterparts elsewhere. In tracing both the overarching traits and variations in African colonial states, he makes a strong case that colonialism has played a critical role in shaping the fate of this troubled continent
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-348) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Bula Matari and the contemporary African crisis
On the state
The nature and genesis of the colonial state
Constructing Bula Matari
The colonial state institutionalized
Toward African independence
The ambiguous challenge of civil society
The imperial legacy and state traditions
The afterlife of the Africsan colonial state: concluding reflections.
On the state
The nature and genesis of the colonial state
Constructing Bula Matari
The colonial state institutionalized
Toward African independence
The ambiguous challenge of civil society
The imperial legacy and state traditions
The afterlife of the Africsan colonial state: concluding reflections.
Source of Description
Print version record.
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Print version: Young, Crawford, 1931- African colonial state in comparative perspective. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1994
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