Frederick Cooper

Frederick Cooper (born October 27, 1947 in New York City , USA) is an American historian whose fields of research are the history of Africa, colonization and decolonization .

Life

Cooper studied the labor movement of Africa at the beginning of his studies , but later focused on the field of colonialism . In 1974 he received his Ph.D. from Yale University to Ph. D. From 1982 to 2001 he taught at the University of Michigan . In 2001, Cooper was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He is currently (2017) a history professor at New York University .

2010/2011 was Cooper Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .
In 2015 he received the George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association (AHA) for his work Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–60 .

2014: Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-60 . Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, ISBN 978-0-691-16131-0 .
2014: Africa in the World: Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, ISBN 978-0-674281394 .
2013: Out of Europe: Redefing Africa's Place in the World . Vienna University Press, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8471-0097-3 .
2010: together with Jane Burbank : Empires in World History. Power and the Politics of Difference. Princeton University Press , Princeton and Oxford ISBN 978-0-691-12708-8 .
- 2012: German: Empires of World History: The Repertoire of Power from Ancient Rome and China to Today . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York City 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39670-5 .
2005: Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge History. University of California Press , Berkeley , California ISBN 0-520-24414-1 .
2002: Africa since 1940: The Past of the Present. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge , England.
1996: Decolonization and African Society. The Labor Question in French and British Africa. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.
1980: From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya . Yale University Press , New Haven , Connecticut , USA.
1977: Plantation Slavery on the East Coast of Africa. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.