Yale University, PhD 1974
Frederick Cooper
Professor Emeritus of History
Modern Africa; empires in world history; colonization and decolonization; the social sciences and the colonial situation
BOOKS
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Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference: Historical Perspectives.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018Spanish translation in preparation
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Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014Also in French translation
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Africa in the World: Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State.Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014Also in French translation
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Empires in World History, Power and the Politics of DifferencePrinceton: Princeton University Press, 2010(Co-author with Jane Burbank) “Also in French, Spanish, German, Turkish, Russian, Chinese, and Korean translations.
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Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, HistoryBerkeley: University of California Press, 2005Also in French and German translations
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Africa Since 1940: The Past of the PresentCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002Also in French translation
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Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British AfricaCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996Also in French translation
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Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation SocietiesChapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000(Co-author with Rebecca Scott and Thomas Holt) Also in Portuguese translation
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Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin AmericaMadison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993(Co-author, with Allen Isaacman, Florencia Mallon, William Roseberry, and Steve Stern)
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On the African Waterfront: Urban Disorder and the Transformation of Work in Colonial MombasaNew Haven: Yale University Press, 1987
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From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980
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Plantation Slavery on the East Coast of AfricaNew Haven: Yale University Press, 1977
Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997 (with Ann Stoler).
International Development and the Social Sciences: Essays in the History and Politics of Knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997 (with Randall Packard).
Societies after Slavery: A Select Annotated Bibliography of Printed Sources on the British West Indies, British Colonial Africa, South Africa, Cuba, and Brazil. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002 (with Rebecca Scott, Thomas Holt, and Aims McGuiness).
Lessons of Empire: Imperial Histories and American Power. New York: New Press, 2006 (with Craig Calhoun and Kevin Moore).
"Conflict and Connection: Rethinking Colonial African History," American Historical Review 99 (1994): 1516-45.
"'Our Strike': Equality, Anticolonial Politics, and the French West African Railway Strike of 1947-48," Journal of African History 37 (1996): 81-118.
"Beyond Identity." Theory and Society 29 (2000): 1-47 (with Rogers Brubaker).
"Empire, droits et citoyenneté, de 212 à 1946." Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales 63, 3 (2008): 495-531 (with Jane Burbank).
"Possibility and Constraint: African Independence in Historical Perspective." Journal of African History, 49 (2008): 167-96.
"Reconstructing Empire in Post-War French and British Africa." Past and Present, 210, Supplement 6 (February 2011) on "Post-war Reconstruction in Europe," 196-210.
"Alternatives to Nationalism in French West Africa, 1945-60." Pp. 110-37 in Marc Frey and Jost Dülferr, eds., Elites and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
"The Empire Effect." Public Culture 24, 2 (2012): 239-47 (with Jane Burbank).
"Social Rights and Human Rights in the Time of Decolonization." Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 3, 3 (2012): 473-92.
"How Global Do We Want Our Intellectual History to Be?" Pp. 283-94 in Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori, eds., Global Intellectual History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.
"French Africa, 1947-48: Reform, Violence, and Uncertainty in a Colonial Situation." Critical Inquiry 40 (2014): 466-78.
"African Studies: History." Pp. 286-91 in James Wright, ed. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., Vol. 1. Oxford: Elsevier, 2015.
"Africa in World History." Pp. 556-84 in J. R. McNeill and Kenneth Pomeranz, eds., The Cambridge World History: Vol. VII Production, Destruction, and Connection, 1750-Present, Part 1 Structures, Spaces, and Boundary Making. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
"From Chief to Technocrat: Labour and Colonial Authority in Post-World War II Africa." Pp. 391-411 in Peter Crooks and Timothy Parsons, eds., Empires and Bureaucracy in World History: From Late Antiquity to the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016
"From Enslavement to Precarity? The Labour Question in African History." Pp. 135-56 in Wale Adebanwi, ed., The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa: Beyond the Margins Oxford: James Currey, 2017.
"Routes out of Empire."Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 37 (2017): 406-11.
"Colonies, Empires, Nations: A Twentieth Century History." Pp. 1-22 in Klaus Mühlhahn, ed., The Cultural Legacy of German Colonial Rule. Oldenbourg: De Gruyter, 2017.
"Federation, Confederation, Territorial State: Debating a Post-imperial Future in French West Africa, 1945-1960.” In Andrew Arato, Jean Cohen, and Astrid von Beusekist, eds., Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
“Empires after 1919: Old, New, Transformed” (with Jane Burbank). International Affairs, 95 (2019): 81-100.