Frederick Cooper is an American

United States

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 historian who specializes in colonialization

Colonialism

Colonialism is the establishment, maintenance, acquisition and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory. It is a process whereby the metropole claims sovereignty over the colony and the social structure, government, and economics of the colony are changed by...

, decolonialization

Colonialism

Colonialism is the establishment, maintenance, acquisition and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory. It is a process whereby the metropole claims sovereignty over the colony and the social structure, government, and economics of the colony are changed by...

 and African history. Cooper received his Ph.D from Yale University

Yale University

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 in 1974 and is currently professor of history at New York University

New York University

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Cooper initially studied the labor movement in East Africa, but later moved on the a broader consideration of colonialism. One of his best known conceptual contributions is the concept of the gatekeeper state

Gatekeeper state

The concept of a gatekeeper state was introduced by the historian of Africa Frederick Cooper in his book Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present....

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Nowadays, He is the principal dean in the Faculty of Architecture in Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Lima.

Books

• Cooper, F. (1977) Plantation Slavery on the East Coast of Africa (New Haven: Yale University Press)
• Cooper, F. (1980) From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya , 1890-1925 (New Haven: Yale University Press)
• Cooper, F. (1996) Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
• Cooper, F. (2002) Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) ; french translation: L'Afrique depuis 1940 (Paris, Payot, 2008)
• Cooper, F. (2005) Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge History (Berkeley: University of California Press) ; french translation: Le Colonialisme en question. Théorie, connaissance, histoire (Paris, Payot, 2010)
• in co-operation with Jane Burbank: Empires in World History. Power and the Politics of Difference, Princeton University Press
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  , Princeton and Oxford 2010

Articles

• Cooper, F. (1996) "'Our Strike': Equality, Anticolonial Politics, and the French West African Railway Strike of 1947-48," Journal of African History, 37: 81-118.
• Cooper, F. (2000) "Africa's Pasts and Africa's Historians," Canadian Journal of African Studies, 34: 298-336.
• Cooper, F. (2001) "What Is the Concept of Globalization Good For? An African Historian's Perspective," African Affairs, 100: 189-213.
• Cooper, F. (2004) "Empire Multiplied," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 46: 247-72.
• Cooper, F. & Brubaker, R. (2000) "Beyond Identity," Theory and Society, 29: 1-47.

External links

• Frederick Cooper's web page at Department of History, New York University