ISBN 10 : 0521311489
ISBN 13 : 9780521311489

This collection of essays brings together historians and political scientists from Britain, France and the United States, who, from widely differing perspectives and traditions, ha..

ISBN 10 : 089789622X
ISBN 13 : 9780897896221

In Africa, Western education has been used as a tool for keeping wealth and power in the hands of the educated elite. This book highlights the various processes by which the poor i..

ISBN 10 : 9781349188864
ISBN 13 : 1349188867

In the first twenty-five years of African independence the behaviour of the African state elites has not been, with a few notable exceptions, conducive to self-sustained developmen..

ISBN 10 : 9789956616121
ISBN 13 : 9956616125

This book critically analyzes the complex relationship between the African state and capitalist globalization. It describes in great detail the significant effects of the various h..

ISBN 10 : 9780674369313
ISBN 13 : 0674369319

Of the many pathways out of empire, why did African leaders follow the one that led to the nation-state, whose dangers were recognized by Africans in the 1940s and 50s? Frederick C..

ISBN 10 : 9783319493916
ISBN 13 : 3319493914

Rereading Marx, Weber, Gramsci and, more recently, Foucault, Béatrice Hibou tackles one of the core questions of political and social theory: state domination. Combining comparati..

ISBN 10 : 9781444395570
ISBN 13 : 1444395572

Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa provides a conceptual framework for analysing dynamic processes of state-making in Africa. Features a conceptual f..