Frederick Cooper is Professor of History at New York University and author most recently of Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960 (2014), Africa in the World: Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State (2014), and (with Jane Burbank) Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (2010).
Frederick Cooper
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A World of Connections and Inequality: A New History of the 19th Century
The 19th century poses special problems for historians and social scientists. If conventional views of the march of history are correct, the world should have become modern over this period. Following upon the political revolutions in France, Haiti, and North and South America and the Industrial Revolution, the 19th century should have produced a definitive […]
