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The Postcolonial State in Africa
Crawford Young
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Description for The Postcolonial State in Africa
Paperback. Num Pages: 468 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1H; HBJH; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 151 x 34. Weight in Grams: 726.
In The Postcolonial State in Africa, Crawford Young offers an informed and authoritative comparative overview of fifty years of African independence, drawing on his decades of research and first-hand experience on the African continent.
Young identifies three cycles of hope and disappointment common to many of the African states (including those in North Africa) over the last half-century: initial euphoria at independence in the 1960s followed by disillusionment with a lapse into single-party autocracies and military rule; a period of renewed confidence, radicalisation, and ambitious state expansion in the 1970s preceding state crisis and even ... Read more
In The Postcolonial State in Africa, Crawford Young offers an informed and authoritative comparative overview of fifty years of African independence, drawing on his decades of research and first-hand experience on the African continent.
Young identifies three cycles of hope and disappointment common to many of the African states (including those in North Africa) over the last half-century: initial euphoria at independence in the 1960s followed by disillusionment with a lapse into single-party autocracies and military rule; a period of renewed confidence, radicalisation, and ambitious state expansion in the 1970s preceding state crisis and even ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Number of pages
468
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299291440
SKU
V9780299291440
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About Crawford Young
Crawford Young is the Rupert Emerson Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His many books include The Rise and Decline of the Zairian State, Ideology and Development in Africa, The Politics of Cultural Pluralism, and The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective.
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