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PhD History University of California, Berkeley
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Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Frederick Cooper is an American historian who specializes in colonialization, decolonialization, and African history. After finishing his BA at Stanford University in 1969, Cooper received his Doctor of Philosophy from Yale University in 1974. From 1974 to 1982 he was Assistant, then Associate Professor at Harvard University. Becoming Professor of History at the University of Michigan in 1982, he left for a professorship of history at New York University where he has worked since 2002.

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Frederick Cooper 's Published Works

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Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present (2002) (671)
Decolonization and African Society. The Labor Question in French and British Africa (2003) (538)
Conflict and Connection: Rethinking Colonial African History (1994) (380)
What is the Concept of Globalization Good for? An African Historian's Perspective (2001) (364)
International development and the social sciences : essays on the history and politics of knowledge (1999) (259)
From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925. (1981) (182)
On the African Waterfront: Urban Disorder and the Transformation of Work in Colonial Mombasa (1987) (158)
POSSIBILITY AND CONSTRAINT: AFRICAN INDEPENDENCE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE* (2008) (132)
Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, And The Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America (1993) (99)
The Problem of Slavery in African Studies (1979) (94)
Struggle for the City: Migrant Labor, Capital, and the State in Urban Africa. (1984) (91)
Citizenship Between Empire and Nation : Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960 (2014) (85)
Africa in the World: Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State (2014) (68)
from free labor to family allowances: labor and African society in colonial discourse (1989) (67)
Development, Modernization, and the Social Sciences in the Era of Decolonization : the Examples of British and French Africa (2004) (66)
International Development and the Social Sciences: Essays on the History and Politics of Knowledge (1999) (66)
Writing the History of Development 1 (2010) (58)
Citizenship between Empire and Nation (2014) (58)
Peasants, capitalists, and historians: a review article (1981) (54)
Control and Crisis in Colonial Kenya: The dialectic of domination (1991) (54)
Democracy in Africa: Successes, Failures, and the struggle for political reform (2016) (54)
Decolonization and African Society: The dangers of expansion and the dilemmas of reform (1996) (54)
Empire Multiplied. A Review Essay (2004) (51)
‘Our Strike’: Equality, Anticolonial Politics and the 1947–48 Railway Strike in French West Africa (1996) (42)
Africa’s Pasts and Africa’s Historians (2000) (39)
Decolonizing Situations: The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Colonial Studies, 1951-2001 (2002) (38)
Work, class and empire: An African historian's retrospective on E. P. Thompson (1995) (34)
Civilising Subjects: Colony and Metropole in the English Imagination, 1830–1867. By Catherine Hall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xi+556. $79.00 (cloth); $29.00 (paper). (2003) (33)
Race, Ideology, and the Perils of Comparative History (1996) (29)
Who is the Populist? (1987) (29)
Mau Mau and the Discourses of Decolonization (1988) (28)
Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies (2003) (27)
Reconstructing Empire in British and French Africa (2011) (26)
The Senegalese General Strike of 1946 and the Labor Question in Post-War French Africa (1990) (25)
Elevating the Race: The Social Thought of Black Leaders, 1827-50 (1972) (24)
Modernizing colonialism and the limits of empire (2003) (23)
Afterword: Social Rights and Human Rights in the Time of Decolonization (2012) (20)
Race, Ideology, and the Perils of Comparative History@@@Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa.@@@Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa. (1996) (19)
Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa: Networks, moral discourse, and history (2001) (17)
The Temple of Apollo Bassitas (1992) (17)
From Slaves to Squatters. Plantation Labour and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925 (1982) (15)
Decolonization and African Society: The labor question unposed (1996) (13)
Characterization of mortars used for the construction of Saithidai Heroon Podium (1st century AD) in ancient Messene, Peloponnesus, Greece (2007) (13)
From imperial inclusion to republican exclusion? France's ambiguous postwar trajectory (2009) (12)
Africa's Pasts and Africa's Historians (1999) (10)
Decolonization and African Society: Crises (1996) (9)
Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference (2018) (9)
Back to Work: Categories, Boundaries and Connections in the Study of Labour (2000) (9)
The Crisis In The Punjab, From The 10th Of May Until The Fall Of Delhi (2009) (8)
Satellite spectral data and archaeological reconnaissance in western Greece (1991) (7)
Mahmood Mamdani, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of late Colonialism . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. xii + 353pp. (1997) (7)
Alternatives to Nationalism in French Africa, 1945–60 (2011) (7)
Reconstructing Empire in British and (2011) (7)
The Temple of Apollo at Bassae: New Observations on its Plan and Orientation (1968) (7)
Voting, Welfare and Registration: The Strange Fate of the État-Civil in French Africa, 1945-1960 (2014) (6)
Reconnaissance of a Greek Mountain City (1981) (6)
Greek Engineering and Construction (2009) (6)
Routes Out of Empire (2017) (6)
The Quarries of Mount Taygetos in the Peloponnesos, Greece (1988) (5)
The Treatment of Slaves on the Kenya Coast in the 19th Century (1973) (5)
The Temple of Apollo Bassitas I: The Architecture@@@The Temple of Apollo Bassitas III: The Architecture: Illustrations (1997) (5)
Africa in world history (2011) (5)
Decolonization and African Society: Conclusion: the social meaning of decolonization (1996) (5)
Farewell to the Category-Producing Class? (2000) (4)
Development, Modernization, and the Social Sciences in the Era of Decolonization (2015) (4)
Gatekeeping practices, gatekeeper states and beyond (2018) (4)
The Temple of Apollo Bassitas Vol. 1: The Architecture@@@The Temple of Apollo Bassitas Vol. 3: Illustrations@@@The Temple of Apollo Bassitas Vol. 4: Plates (1997) (3)
French Africa, 1947–48: Reform, Violence, and Uncertainty in a Colonial Situation (2014) (3)
Memories of colonization: Commemoration, preservation, and erasure in an African archive (2006) (3)
La modernisation du colonialisme et les limites de l'empire (2010) (3)
Paradigms, Pedagogy and Politics: Thinking about Africa in the Twenty-First Century (1996) (2)
From Colonial State to Gatekeeper State in Africa (2005) (2)
Fabian Klose. Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence: The Wars of Independence in Kenya and Algeria. (2014) (2)
A parting of the ways: Colonial Africa and South Africa, 1946–48 (2006) (2)
A Reconstruction of Duccio's Maestà (1965) (2)
Decolonization and citizenship Africa between empires and a world of nations (2012) (2)
Jacopo Pontormo and Influences from the Renaissance Theater (1973) (2)
Africa Since 1940: The recurrent crises of the gatekeeper state (2002) (2)
Leroy Vail and Landeg White. Capitalism and Colonialism in Mozambique: A Study of Quelimane District. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1980. Pp. xii, 419 (1982) (1)
The French Imperial Nation‐State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars. By Gary Wilder. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xi+404. $75.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). (2008) (1)
Africa Since 1940: Development and disappointment: social and economic change in an unequal world, 1945–2000 (2002) (1)
Smikros and Epilykos:: Two Comic Inventions in Athenian Vase-painting (2014) (1)
Computer-assisted system for the reconstruction of shattered objects (2005) (1)
Remote Inventory of Greek Vernacular Architecture : Online Capture of Spatial Information (2009) (1)
We Are No Longer in France: Communists in Colonial Algeria (2016) (1)
Chapter 5. Reframing France The Loi-Cadre and African Federalism, 1956–1957 (2014) (1)
Decolonization and African Society: Reforming imperialism, 1935–1940 (1996) (1)
Struggle for the City: Migrant Labor, Capital and the State in Urban Africa (1984) (1)
Forced labor, strike movements, and the idea of development, 1940–1945 (1996) (1)
Nexus of Science and Colonialism (2011) (1)
Feasts and Riot: Revelry, Rebellion, and Popular Consciousness on the Swahili Coast, 1856–1888. By Jonathon Glassman (Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann, 1995. xvii plus 293pp. $50.00/cloth, $22.95/paper-back) (1996) (1)
The fortifications and adjacent structures (2005) (1)
The Politics of Decolonization in French and British West Africa (2018) (1)
Citizenship and the politics of difference in French Africa, 1946-1960 (2008) (1)
Decolonization and African Society: Imperial plans (1996) (1)
Chapter 6. From Overseas Territory to Member State Constitution and Conflict, 1958 (2014) (1)
Decolonization and African Society: Family wages and industrial relations in British Africa (1996) (1)
Robert H. Bates. Beyond the Miracle of the Market: The Political Economy of Agrarian Development in Kenya. (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1989. Pp. xv, 203. $37.50 (1991) (1)
Decolonization and African Society: Delinking colony and metropole: French Africa in the 1950s (1996) (1)
From Slave to Squatters: Plantation Labour and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925. (1982) (1)
Development Knowledge and the Social Sciences (1994) (1)
1. Federation, Confederation, Territorial State: Debating a Postimperial Future in French West Africa, 1945–1960 (2018) (1)
Ending Empire and Imagining the Future (2002) (0)
An Imperial World (1969) (0)
Interlude: Rhythms of Change in the Post-War World (2019) (0)
Chapter 3. Defining Citizenship, 1946–1956 (2014) (0)
Port labour in a colonial city: Mombasa, 1850—1965 (2017) (0)
Decolonization and African Society: The systematic approach: the French Code du Travail (1996) (0)
Chapter 1. From French Empire to French Union (2014) (0)
Decolonization and African Society: Bibliography (1996) (0)
Samuel Moyn. Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World. (2019) (0)
African Studies: History (2015) (0)
Reformando el Imperio, acabando con el Imperio: Francia y África Occidental, 1944-1960 | Reforming Empire, Ending Empire: France and West Africa, 1944-1960 (2008) (0)
7. Labor, Politics, and the End of Empire in French Africa (2019) (0)
African society reinterpreted: Imperial ideology and African labor in the age of decolonization and development (1992) (0)
François Manchuelle, Willing Migrants: Soninke Labor Diasporas, 1848–1960. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1997. xx + 371 pp. $44.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. (1999) (0)
Making Empire: Colonial Encounters and the Creation of Imperial Rule in Nineteenth-Century Africa (review) (2010) (0)
In Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India (Cambridge South Asian Studies No. 44. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) (1992) (0)
Chapter 4. Claiming Citizenship French West Africa, 1946–1956 (2014) (0)
Decolonization and African Society: Conclusion: posing the labor question (1996) (0)
Review: Emmanuel Akyeampong, Robert H. Bates, Nathan Nunn, and James A. Robinson (eds), Africa’s Development in Historical Perspective (2014) (2015) (0)
Making Empire: Colonial Encounters and the Creation of Imperial Rule in Nineteenth-Century Africa. By Richard Price (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008) 371 pp. $99.00 cloth $36.99 paper (2010) (0)
WHAT IS THE CONCEPT OF GLOBALIZATION GOOD FOR? AN AFRICAN HISTORIAN’S PERSPECTIVE (2019) (0)
Workers, peasants, and the crisis of colonialism (2002) (0)
Daniel J. Sherman. French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire, 1945-1975. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2011, XII-284 p. (2013) (0)
Plenary Forum on Empires and Colonies: Three outstanding scholars in the field (2011) (0)
From chief to technocrat: Labour and colonial authority in post–World War II Africa (2016) (0)
More questions about colonialism (Empires at the heart of colonialism, Proceedings of International Symposium "East Asia as a Magnetic Field" (2)) (2014) (0)
John Iliffe, The Emergence of African Capitalism , London and Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1983, 114 pp., £5.95 paperback. (1985) (0)
Decolonization and African Society: Conclusion: modernity, backwardness, and the colonial state (1996) (0)
More questions about colonialism = 植民地主義へのさらなる問い (2014) (0)
Tourism and the arts -- a review dimension for development. (1981) (0)
Decolonization and African Society: Nation, international trade unionism, and race: anglophone Africa in the 1950s (1996) (0)
The African Worker (1989) (0)
Chapter one. Imperial Citizenship from the Roman Republic to the Edict of Caracalla (2018) (0)
Citizenship, Self-Government, and Development: The Possibilities of the Post-War Moment (2019) (0)
Introduction: from colonies to Third World (2002) (0)
Colonies, empires, nations: A twentieth century history (2017) (0)
Chapter 7. Unity and Division in Africa and France, 1958–1959 (2014) (0)
Wagons of Smoke: An Informal History of the East African Railways and Harbours Administration 1948–1961 . By Arthur F. Beckenham. London: Cadogan Publications, 1987. Pp. xvi+405. £17, paperback. (1991) (0)
MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA HELD BY CONFERENCE CALL (2009) (0)
6. States, Empires, and Political Imagination (2019) (0)
Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire: State and Business in Decolonizing Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya, 1945–1963. By Robert L. Tignor. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 419. $55.00 (1999) (0)
Sociology and Empire: The Imperial Entanglements of a Discipline dir. by George Steinmetz (review) (2015) (0)
America's tribute to Britain / fgc ; The Marchbanks Press, New York. (0)
Decolonizations, Colonizations, and More Decolonizations: The End of Empire in Time and Space (2022) (0)
Colonial Evangelism: A Socio-Historical Study of an East African Mission at the Grassroots, by T. O. Beidelman (Bloomington. Indiana University Press, 1982). (1986) (0)
Chapter 2. A Constitution for an Empire of Citizens (2014) (0)
Ethnicity in Mombasa (1994) (0)
Decolonization in Tropical Africa (2018) (0)
Epilogue (2021) (0)
Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present by Keith Breckenridge (review) (2016) (0)
Decolonization and African Society: Conclusion: labor and the modernizing state (1996) (0)
Book Review: Africa's Development in Historical Perspective (2015) (0)
Ralph Callebert, On Durban's docks: Zulu workers, rural households, global labor (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2017. Pp. xvi+235. 3 maps. ISBN 9781580469074 Hbk. £80/$99) (2018) (0)
Africa at the century's turn: South Africa, Rwanda, and beyond (2002) (0)
The late decolonizations: southern Africa 1975, 1979, 1994 (2002) (0)
Alternativas al nacionalismo en África Francesa, 1945-1960 Alternatives to Nationalism in French West Africa, 1945-1960 (2014) (0)
Chapter two. Citizenship and Empire - Europe and Beyond (2018) (0)
The politics of citizenship in colonial and postcolonial Africa (2005) (0)
2. The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Colonial Studies, 1951–2001 (2019) (0)
Decolonization and African Society: The wages of modernity and the price of sovereignty (1996) (0)
Decolonization and African Society: Internationalists, intellectuals, and the labor question (1996) (0)
Decolonization and African Society: The burden of declining empire (1996) (0)
Decolonization and African Society: OTHER BOOKS IN THE SERIES (1996) (0)
Decolonization and African Society: Introduction (1996) (0)
Decolonization and African Society: Preface (1996) (0)

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