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CHAPTER 4 War and Decolonization in Portugals African Empire, 1961-1975The National Liberation Movements; External Actors; The United States and Portugal: The Shifting Alliance; African Battlegrounds: Portuguese Guinea, Mozambique, and Angola; Portuguese Guinea; Mozambique; Angola; CHAPTER 5 White-Minority Rule in Southern Africa, 1960-1990; South Africa and the United States (1960-90); Southern Rhodesia/Zimbabwe (1965-80); Namibia (1966-90); Destabilization in Southern Africa (1975-90); Southern Africas White-Minority Regimes: A Unique Case; CHAPTER 6 Conflict in the Horn, 1952-1993

French Colonial Officials, 1944-59xiii --Chapter 1Reformed Imperialism and the Onset of the Cold War, 1945-508 --Chapter 2The Break with the PCF and Dissension within the Ranks, 1950-5345 --Chapter 3The Fraudulent Elections of 1954 and the Resurgence of the RDA, 1954-5568 --Chapter 4The RDA's Rise to Power and Local Self-Government, 1956-5797 --Chapter 5The Renaissance of the Left: From Autonomy to Independence, 1956-58125 --Chapter 6Defiance and Retribution: The Referendum and Its Aftermath, 1958-60157.

History, culture, and war : the roots of Guinean nationalism, 1939-1947 -- Liberté, egalité, fraternité : military veterans and the postwar nationalist movement, 1940-1955 -- The universal worker : organized labor and nationalist mobilization, 1946-1953 -- Rural revolt : popular resistance to the colonial chieftaincy, 1946-1956 -- Women take the lead : female emancipation and the nationalist movement, 1949-1954 -- Ethnicity, class, and violence : internal dissent in the RDA, 1955-1956 -- Independence now : the resurgence of the Left and the move toward independence, 1956-1958

Poverty, corruption, and conflictsa ffect many parts of Africa, but the source of these problems is widely misunderstood. Many challenges today are rooted in colonial political and economic practices, Cold War alliances, and attempts by outsiders to influence political and economic systems during the decolonization and postindependence periods. This book provides a new framework for foreign political and military intervention in Africa, its purposes. It focuses on the 25 years following the Cold War, when neighboring states and subregional, regional, and global organizations and networks joined extracontinental powers in support of diverse forces in the war-making and peace-building processes. Two rationales were used to justify intervention: a response to instability (and the responsibility to protect) and the war on terror. Intended for nonpecialists, the book offers a new continentwide perspective, illuminated by case studies synthesized from previously published works.

A new book by Frederick Cooper seeks to change our understanding both of Africa's role in the global economy over the centuries and of how the independent nation-state replaced colonial rule.

The brevity of this slim volume, centered on three essays that were first presented as McMillan-Stewart Lectures at Harvard University's W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, belies the size of its contribution to our understanding of Africa's place in the world. Building on Du Bois's pioneering 1946 study, The World and Africa, Frederick Cooper integrates the African continent into the mainstream of world history by focusing on its experiences of capitalism, empire, and the nation-state. Pursuing his long-standing interest in 'the relationship of possibility and constraint in the study of African history,' Cooper, a highly regarded professor of history at New York University, connects his early work on capitalism and global economic relations with his more recent analyses of empire and colonialism. Each essay considers Africa in relation to the world rather than as a world apart, as well as the present implications of past choices and the multiplicity of alternatives for the way forward. Adapted from the source document.