Plantation Slavery on the East Coast of Africa (Social History of Africa) [Paperback]

Frederick Cooper (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 5, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0435074199 | ISBN-13: 978-0435074197

Based on extensive research, and drawing on a wide range of sources, including local documents and interviews with descendants of both slaves and slaveowners, Cooper reconstructs the plantation economy of the East African coast and its effects on slaves. His work is intelligent, quite readable, and broadly comparative, as he relates the regional variations in slave systems along the coast and sets them beside forms of slavery

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Review

“Cooper's work remains the most comprehensive and thoughtful treatment of nineteenth-century East African coastal economy presently available to us.”–Journal of African History

About the Author

Frederick Cooper is professor of history at the University of Michigan. He is widely acknowledged as one of the most distinguished scholars in African history.

Product Details

• Paperback: 332 pages
• Publisher: Heinemann (May 5, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0435074199
• ISBN-13: 978-0435074197
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,099,712 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Frederick Cooper is Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of a trilogy of books on labor and society in East Africa and more recently of Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa (1996), Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present (2002), and Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History (2005). He is also co-author with Thomas Holt and Rebecca Scott of Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Post-Emancipation Societies (2000) and with Jane Burbank of Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (2010). He is co-editor with Ann Stoler of Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (1997), with Randall Packard of International Development and the Social Sciences: Essays in the History and Politics of Knowledge (1997), and with Craig Calhoun and Kevin Moore of Lessons of Empire: Imperial Histories and American Power (2006). He is currently writing a history of citizenship in France and French West Africa between 1945 and 1960.