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9781558761247

Problems in the History of Modern Africa

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  • ISBN13:

    9781558761247

  • ISBN10:

    1558761241

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-12-01
  • Publisher: Markus Wiener Publisher
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Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction 1(4)
Decolonization and the End of Empire
5(28)
Hargreaves: Decolonization in Africa
8(6)
Low: The Asian Mirror to Tropical Africa's Independence
14(4)
Louis and Robinson: The United States and the Liquidation of British Empire in Tropical Africa, 1941-1951
18(5)
Suret-Canale: From Colorization to Independence in French Tropical Africa: The Economic Background
23(3)
Woddis: Africa: The Roots of Revolt
26(6)
Suggested Readings
32(1)
The African Environment: Origins of a Crisis
33(46)
Timberlake: Africa in Crisis: The Causes, the Cures of Environmental Bankruptcy
37(4)
Anderson and Johnson: Introduction: Ecology and Society in Northeast African History
41(6)
Cleaver and Schreiber: Reversing the Spiral: Population, Agriculture and Environment Nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa
47(4)
Thomas-Slater and Rocheleau: Gender, Resources, Local Institutions: New Identities for Kenya's Rural Women
51(8)
Lofchie: The Decline of African Agriculture: An Internalist Perspective
59(5)
Baker: Linking and Sinking: Economic Externalities and the Persistence of Destitution and Famine in Africa
64(7)
Gritzner: The West African Sahel: Human Agency and Environmental Change
71(6)
Suggested Readings
77(2)
Epidemics and Health Care in Africa: The Human and Financial Costs
79(36)
Maclean: Medical Expertise and Africa
83(3)
Stock and Anyiman: National Governments and Health Service Policy in Africa
86(10)
Woelk: Primary Health Care in Zimbabwe: Can It Survive?
96(6)
Schoepf: Women, AIDS, and Economic Crisis in Central Africa
102(5)
Green: AIDS and STDs in Africa
107(7)
Suggested Readings
114(1)
Democracy and the Nation State
115(44)
Goldsworthy: Ghana's Second Republic: A Post-Mortem
119(3)
Crowder: Whose Dream Was It Anyway? Twenty-Five Years of African Independence
122(5)
Jackson and Rosberg: Democracy in Tropical Africa: Democracy versus Autocracy in African Politics
127(4)
Staudt: Women's Politics, the State, and Capitalist Transformation in Africa
131(5)
Ogundipe-Leslie: In Search of Citizenship: African Women and the Myth of Democracy
136(4)
Davidson: The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation State
140(7)
Molutsi and Holm: Developing Democracy: When Civil Society is Weak: The Case of Botswana
147(5)
Sisk: South Africa and the Politics of Divided Societies
152(5)
Suggested Readings
157(2)
Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Failure or Success?
159(58)
Young: Bula Matari and the Contemporary African Crisis
163(9)
Skinner: Development in Africa: A Cultural Perspective
172(7)
Agovi: Consensual Politics and Development Aid in Africa
179(7)
Browne: Alternative Policy Frameworks for African Development in the 1990s
186(10)
Kamarck: The Resources of Tropical Africa
196(9)
Fieldhouse: Arrested Development in Anglophone Black Africa
205(10)
Suggested Readings
215(2)
Collapsed States
217(57)
Zolburg: The Spectre of Anarchy: African States Verging on Dissolution
220(12)
Pfaff: A New Colonialism? Europe Must Go Back Into Africa
232(4)
Soyinka: Hope and Horror in Africa
236(3)
Mazrui: The Blood of Exprience
239(8)
Mazrui: Recolonize Africa?
247(2)
Gambari: The Role of Foreign Intervention in African Reconstruction
249(12)
Deng: State Collapse: The Humanitarian Challenge to the United Nations
261(12)
Suggested Readings
273(1)
Acknowledgements 274

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