Frederick Cooper 3328253 220333512 2008-06-19T10:25:18Z Waacstats 1951353 Stub-sorting. [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting|You can help!]] '''Frederick Cooper''' is an [[United States|American]] historian who specializes in [[colonialism|colonialization]], [[colonialism|decolonialization]] and [[African history]]. Cooper received his Ph.D from [[Yale University]] in 1974 and is currently professor of history at [[New York University]]. 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]]. ==Selected publications== ===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) ===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. ==See also== *[[History]] *[[African History]] *[[Colonialism]] ==External links== *[http://history.fas.nyu.edu/page/home Frederick Cooper's web page] at [http://history.fas.nyu.edu/page/home Department of History], [http://www.nyu.edu New York University] {{DEFAULTSORT:Cooper, Frederick}} [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:New York University faculty]] [[Category:Historians of Africa]] [[Category:Historians of colonialism]] [[Category:American historians]] {{US-historian-stub}}