Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- List of tables and figure (page x)
- Preface (page xi)
- List of abbreviations (page xvi)
- Map of French and British colonial Africa (page xviii)
- Part I: The dangers of expansion and the dilemmas of reform (page 21)
- Part II: Imperial fantasies and colonial crises (page 171)
- Part III: The imagining of a working class (page 271)
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Part IV: Devolving power and abdicating responsibility (page 387)
- Introduction (page 389)
- 10 The burden of declining empire (page 392)
- 11 Delinking colony and metropole: French Africa in the 1950s (page 407)
- 12 Nation, international trade unionism, and race: anglophone Africa in the 1950s (page 432)
- Conclusion: the social meaning of decolonization (page 451)
- Conclusion (page 455)
- 13 The wages of modernity and the price of sovereignty (page 457)
- Notes (page 473)
- Bibliography (page 627)
- Index (page 657)