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# Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present

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Review: Four Stars - very good
Review: This book helped me get a good grade. Cooper is coherent and easy to understand compared to many other writers on the topic.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | 0521776007 |
| Country of Origin  | India |
| Customer Reviews | 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (44) |
| Dimensions  | 15.21 x 1.32 x 22.78 cm |
| ISBN-10  | 0521872448 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0521776004 |
| Item Weight  | 363 g |
| Language  | English |
| Part of series  | New Approaches to African History |
| Print length  | 230 pages |
| Publication date  | 10 October 2002 |
| Publisher  | Cambridge University Press |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Four Stars
*by K***R on 8 November 2015*

very good

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by S***R on 21 January 2016*

This book helped me get a good grade. Cooper is coherent and easy to understand compared to many other writers on the topic.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by J***W on 24 November 2008*

I do not know if Cooper is aware of Daron Acemonglu's work on Institutions and settler mortality. But if you take Acemonglu's work with in concert with Cooper's you have an excellent description of the problem with the African nation-state in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Acemonglu argues that those states that saw high settler mortality during colonization had poor institutions developed. Then, what's left is a state built purely on the extraction of raw materials. Cooper argues these states are "gatekeeper states," where the governments' number one goal is to control access to the raw materials and the outside world. Governments therefore build interest groups and political institutions to protect their own status. These coalitions can be as narrow as Mbasogo's regime in Equitatorial Guinea or as broad as the beginning of the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe. On page 192, Cooper sums this up as, "The common thread here is not just "ethnicity," for that is a label that glosses many different phenomena and processes, but a form of politics that makes an all-or-nothing struggle for inclusion or exclusion to access to state resources conceivable." The book is a quick read. Cooper does not inundate you with facts and figures from the past 65 years of African History. But he offers enough case studies of each incident to give a convincing argument for the gatekeeper state versus other theories of the African state such as neocolonialism. Indeed Cooper is probably a good jumping off point that helps put the scholarship of Acemonglu and Gerard Padro i Miguel in a framework. Anyone interested in the workings of African states and the failure of them to create modern nation-states, whether you agree with him or not, should read this book.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Africa since 1940: The Past of the Present (New Approaches to African History, Series Number 1)
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- Africa, vol. 4: The End of Colonial Rule: Nationalism and Decolonization (Volume 4)

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