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      • Volume 8: From c.1940 to c.1975
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 March 2008
      13 December 1984
      ISBN:
      9781139054621
      9780521224093
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521224093
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.54kg, 1030 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      History, African History, Twentieth Century Regional History
      Series:
      The Cambridge History of Africa
      Collection:
      Cambridge Histories - Middle East & African Studies
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    Subjects:
    History, African History, Twentieth Century Regional History
    Series:
    The Cambridge History of Africa
    Collection:
    Cambridge Histories - Middle East & African Studies
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    The eighth and final volume of The Cambridge History of Africa covers the period 1940–75. It begins with a discussion of the role of the Second World War in the political decolonisation of Africa. Its terminal date of 1975 coincides with the retreat of Portugal, the last European colonial power in Africa, from its possessions and their accession to independence. The fifteen chapters which make up this volume examine on both a continental and regional scale the extent to which formal transfer of political power by the European colonial rulers also involved economic, social and cultural decolonisation. A major theme of the volume is the way the African successors to the colonial rulers dealt with their inheritance and how far they benefited particular economic groups and disadvantaged others. The contributors to this volume represent different disciplinary traditions and do not share a single theoretical perspective on the recent history of the continent, a subject that is still the occasion for passionate debate.

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    The contributors ‘achieve a unity of view rarely found in the Actonian collections of the Cambridge University Press.’

    Ronald Robinson Source: The Times Literary Supplement

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