Frederick Cooper (New York University, New York)

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Frederick Cooper
Professor
Department of History
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York, New York  10012   USA

phone:  212-998-8606
fax:    212 995-4017
e-mail: fred.cooper@nyu.edu



Research and teaching interests:

20th century African history, colonization and decolonization, labor
history, the social sciences and the colonial world


Recent publications:

Books

Author of:

2002   Africa since 1940: the past of the present. Cambridge, 
UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

1996   Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French 
and British Africa. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Co-editor of:

2000   With Rebecca Scott and Thomas Holt. Beyond Slavery: Explorations 
of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies.  Chapel 
Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

1997   With Ann Stoler. Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures 
in a Bourgeois World.  Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

1997   With Randall Packard. International Development and 
the Social Sciences: Essays in the History and Politics of Knowledge.  
Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

Articles:

2002   "Networks, Moral Discourse, and History." Pp. 23-46 in Thomas 
Callaghy, Ronald Kassimir, and Robert Latham, eds., Intervention and
Transnationalism in Africa. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

2001   "What Is the Concept of Globalization Good For? An African 
Historian's Perspective." African Affairs, 100 (2001): 189-213.
 
2000   "Africa's Pasts and Africa's Historians." Canadian Journal of 
African Studies 34 (2000): 298-336.