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Areas of Research/Interest: African history; colonization and decolonization; social sciences and the colonial world.
Select Publications:
Plantation Slavery on the East Coast of Africa. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1977
From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1980
On the African Waterfront: Urban Disorder and the Transformation of Work in Colonial Mombasa. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1987
Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996
Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge History. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005
(co-author, with Allen Isaacman, Florencia Mallon, William Roseberry, and Steve Stern). Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993
(Co-editor with Ann Stoler). Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
(Co-editor with Randall Packard) International Development and the Social Sciences: Essays in the History and Politics of Knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
(Co-author with Rebecca Scott and Thomas Holt) Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
(Co-editor with Craig Calhoun and Kevin Moore) Lessons of Empire. New York: New Press, 2005
"Conflict and Connection: Rethinking Colonial African History," American Historical Review 99 (1994): 1516-45
"'Our Strike': Equality, Anticolonial Politics, and the French West African Railway Strike of 1947-48," Journal of African History 37 (1996): 81-118.
" Africa 's Pasts and Africa 's Historians." Canadian Journal of African Studies 34 (2000): 298-336.
(with Rogers Brubaker) "Beyond Identity." Theory and Society 29 (2000): 1-47.
"What Is the Concept of Globalization Good For? An African Historian's Perspective." African Affairs, 100 (2001): 189-213
"Decolonizing Situations: The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Colonial Studies, 1951-2001." French Politics, Culture and Society 20 (2002): 47-76.
"Empire Multiplied." Comparative Studies in Society and History, 46 (2004): 247-72.
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