search for books and compare prices
Frederick Cooper has written 17 work(s)
Search for other authors with the same name
displaying 1 to 17 | at end
show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest
Cover for 9780691161310 Cover for 9780691171456 Cover for 9780674281394 Cover for 9783847100973 Cover for 9780226733074 Cover for 9780691127088 Cover for 9780691152363 Cover for 9781595580962 Cover for 9781595580078 Cover for 9780520242142 Cover for 9780520244146 Cover for 9780822941842 Cover for 9780822958482 Cover for 9780521772419 Cover for 9780521533072 Cover for 9780521776004 Cover for 9780472104086 Cover for 9780807825419 Cover for 9780807848548 Cover for 9780520209572 Cover for 9780520205406 Cover for 9780520206052 Cover for 9780300024548 Cover for 9780435074203 Cover for 9780435074197 Cover for 9780521562515 Cover for 9780521566001 Cover for 9780299136802 Cover for 9780299136840
cover image for 9780691171456

Hardcover:

9780691161310 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 21, 2014, cover price $45.00

Paperback:

9780691171456 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 31, 2016, cover price $35.00

cover image for 9783847100973
Product Description: The history of decolonization is usually written backward, as if the end-point (a world of juridically equivalent nation-states) was known from the start and the only question was the obstacles to be overcome in order to get there...read more

Paperback:

9783847100973 | Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Gmbh & Co, February 20, 2013, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: The history of decolonization is usually written backward, as if the end-point (a world of juridically equivalent nation-states) was known from the start and the only question was the obstacles to be overcome in order to get there.

cover image for 9780691152363

Hardcover:

9780691127088 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 26, 2010, cover price $57.50

Paperback:

9780691152363 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 5, 2011, cover price $28.95

cover image for 9781595580962
Product Description: In the shadow of America’s recent military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, distinguished historians of empires and noted international relations specialists consider the dirty word “empire” in the face of contemporary political reality...read more
By Craig Calhoun (editor), Frederick Cooper (editor) and Kevin W. Moore (editor)

Hardcover:

9781595580962 | New Pr, April 17, 2006, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: In the shadow of America’s recent military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, distinguished historians of empires and noted international relations specialists consider the dirty word “empire” in the face of contemporary political reality.

Paperback:

9781595580078 | New Pr, March 15, 2006, cover price $19.95

cover image for 9780520242142
Product Description: In this closely integrated collection of essays on colonialism in world history, Frederick Cooper raises crucial questions about concepts relevant to a wide range of issues in the social sciences and humanities, including identity, globalization, and modernity...read more

Hardcover:

9780520242142 | Univ of California Pr, May 24, 2005, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: In this closely integrated collection of essays on colonialism in world history, Frederick Cooper raises crucial questions about concepts relevant to a wide range of issues in the social sciences and humanities, including identity, globalization, and modernity.

Paperback:

9780520244146 | Univ of California Pr, May 24, 2005, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In this closely integrated collection of essays on colonialism in world history, Frederick Cooper raises crucial questions about concepts relevant to a wide range of issues in the social sciences and humanities, including identity, globalization, and modernity.

cover image for 9780822958482
Product Description: One of the massive transformations that took place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was the movement of millions of people from the status of slaves to that of legally free men, women, and children. Societies after Slavery provides thousands of entries and rich scholarly annotations, making it the definitive resource for scholars and students engaged in research on postemancipation societies in the Americas and Africa...read more
By Frederick Cooper (editor), Aims McGuinness (editor) and Rebecca J. Scott (editor)

Hardcover:

9780822941842 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, July 28, 2002, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: One of the massive transformations that took place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was the movement of millions of people from the status of slaves to that of legally free men, women, and children.

Paperback:

9780822958482 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, May 23, 2004, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: One of the massive transformations that took place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was the movement of millions of people from the status of slaves to that of legally free men, women, and children.

cover image for 9780521776004
Frederick Cooper's latest book on the history of decolonization and independence in Africa helps students understand the historical process from which Africa's current position in the world has emerged. Bridging the divide between colonial and post-colonial history, it shows what political independence did and did not signify and how men and women, peasants and workers, religious leaders and local leaders sought to refashion the way they lived, worked, and interacted with each other. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780521772419 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 21, 2002, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Frederick Cooper's latest book on the history of decolonization and independence in Africa helps students understand the historical process from which Africa's current position in the world has emerged.

Paperback:

9780521776004 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $27.99
9780521533072 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 7, 2002, cover price $28.60

cover image for 9780472104086
Product Description: One of the massive transformations that took place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was the movement of millions of people from the status of slaves to that of legally free men, women, and children. Societies after Slavery provides thousands of entries and rich scholarly annotations, making it the definitive resource for scholars and students engaged in research on postemancipation societies in the Americas and Africa...read more
By Frederick Cooper (editor), Thomas C. Holt (editor), Aims McGuinness (editor) and Rebecca J. Scott (editor)

Hardcover:

9780472104086 | Univ of Michigan Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $74.50 | About this edition: One of the massive transformations that took place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was the movement of millions of people from the status of slaves to that of legally free men, women, and children.

Paperback:

9780472088362 | Univ of Michigan Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $39.50 | About this edition: One of the massive transformations that took place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was the movement of millions of people from the status of slaves to that of legally free men, women, and children.

cover image for 9780807825419
Product Description: In this collaborative work, three leading historians explore one of the most significant areas of inquiry in modern historiography--the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition meant for former slaves, former slaveowners, and the societies in which they lived...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780807825419 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In this collaborative work, three leading historians explore one of the most significant areas of inquiry in modern historiography--the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition meant for former slaves, former slaveowners, and the societies in which they lived.

Paperback:

9780807848548 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $31.95

Product Description: During the past fifty years, colonial empires around the world have collapsed and vast areas that were once known as "colonies" have become known as "less developed countries" or "the third world." The idea of development—and the relationship it implies between industrialized, affluent nations and poor, emerging nations—has become the key to a new conceptual framework...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Frederick Cooper (editor) and Randall M. Packard (editor)

Hardcover:

9780520209565 | Univ of California Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: During the past fifty years, colonial empires around the world have collapsed and vast areas that were once known as "colonies" have become known as "less developed countries" or "the third world.

Paperback:

9780520209572 | Univ of California Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: During the past fifty years, colonial empires around the world have collapsed and vast areas that were once known as "colonies" have become known as "less developed countries" or "the third world.

cover image for 9780520205406
Product Description: Starting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, the contributors to Tensions of Empire investigate metropolitan-colonial relationships from a new perspective...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Frederick Cooper (editor) and Ann Laura Stoler (editor)

Hardcover:

9780520205406 | Univ of California Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Starting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, the contributors to Tensions of Empire investigate metropolitan-colonial relationships from a new perspective.

Paperback:

9780520206052 | Univ of California Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $36.95

cover image for 9780435074203
Product Description: Cooper's subtle and seminal work examines the critical decades of transition from a slave-based plantation system in East Africa to a colonial economy based on wage labor. While British officials hoped to create an efficient and productive class of agrarian workers, the original Arab and Swahili landlords and slaveowners tried to redefine their old mechanisms of domination in order to maintain them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780300024548 | Yale Univ Pr, June 1, 1981, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: Cooper's subtle and seminal work examines the critical decades of transition from a slave-based plantation system in East Africa to a colonial economy based on wage labor.

Paperback:

9780435074203 | Heinemann, May 5, 1997, cover price $50.13 | About this edition: Cooper's subtle and seminal work examines the critical decades of transition from a slave-based plantation system in East Africa to a colonial economy based on wage labor.

cover image for 9780435074197
Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Paperback:

9780435074197 | Heinemann, May 5, 1997, cover price $45.40 | About this edition: 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.

cover image for 9780521562515
Product Description: This authoritative volume changes our conceptions of "imperial" and "African" history. Frederick Cooper gathers a vast range of archival sources to achieve a truly comparative study of colonial policy toward African labor forces. He shows how African trade union and political leaders used the new language of social change to claim equality and a share of power...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780521562515 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $136.99 | About this edition: This authoritative volume changes our conceptions of "imperial" and "African" history.

Paperback:

9780521566001 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $89.99

cover image for 9780299136802
Product Description: "Confronting Historical Paradigms" argues that confrontation with major paradigms of world history has marked the fields of African and Latin American history during the last quarter-century and that the process has dramatically restructured historical and theoretical understanding of peasantries, labour and the capitalist world system...read more

Hardcover:

9780299136802 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, April 1, 1993, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: "Confronting Historical Paradigms" argues that confrontation with major paradigms of world history has marked the fields of African and Latin American history during the last quarter-century and that the process has dramatically restructured historical and theoretical understanding of peasantries, labour and the capitalist world system.

Paperback:

9780299136840 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, April 1, 1993, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Confronting Historical Paradigms argues that confrontation with major paradigms of world history has marked the fields of African and Latin American history during the last quarter-century, and that the process has dramatically restructured historical and theoretical understanding of peasantries, labor, and the capitalist world system.

displaying 1 to 17 | at end