May 21, 2005 22:41
I recieved a request to post my potential reading list.
So far, what I have done, has looked up History, African at the Reed library and then looked up titles that sounded like a good introduction to historical theory of the colonialization of Africa; the following are the books:
Colonialism in Question: theory, knowledge, history
Beyond Slavery
Confronting Historical Paradigms
Decolonization and African Society
International Development and the social sciences
Plantation slavery on the East Coast of Africa
- All by Frederick Cooper
Decolonization: perspectives from now and then
- edited by Prasenjit Duara
Archives of Empire
- edited by Mia Carter
Francophone Post-Colonial Cultures: critical essays
- Kamal Salhi
The End of Empire in French West Africa
- Tony Chafer
On the Post Colony
- Achille Mbembe
Subject to Colonialism: African self-fashioning and the colonial library
- Guarav Gajanan Desai
Post Colonialism: an historical introduction
- Robert J.C. Young
More general:
Who Owns History?
- Eric Foner
Rwanda:
Do I Still Life?
- Johnson M. Johnson
Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994
- Christopher L. Taylor