Book contents
- History, Politics, Law
- History, Politics, Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction History, Politics, Law
- Part I Methods, Approaches and Encounters
- Part II Thinking through the International
- Law and Constructions of the Political
- Empires, States and Nations
- 7 Law of Nations, World of Empires: The Politics of Law’s Conceptual Frames
- 8 The History of Political Thought in the African Political Present
- Institutions and Persons
- Economics and Innovation
- Gender
- Index
8 - The History of Political Thought in the African Political Present
from Empires, States and Nations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 September 2021
- History, Politics, Law
- History, Politics, Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction History, Politics, Law
- Part I Methods, Approaches and Encounters
- Part II Thinking through the International
- Law and Constructions of the Political
- Empires, States and Nations
- 7 Law of Nations, World of Empires: The Politics of Law’s Conceptual Frames
- 8 The History of Political Thought in the African Political Present
- Institutions and Persons
- Economics and Innovation
- Gender
- Index
Summary
This is a book about history: the ‘historical turn’ in international law on the one hand, and the ‘international turn’ in the history of political thought on the other. Yet the arguments explored here matter not just because they change the way we understand the past, but because our readings of the past are fundamental to all critical perspectives on the present and the future. In this chapter, I focus on Africa, and what thinking about the history of political thought in mid-twentieth-century Africa means for our understanding of political ordering.
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- History, Politics, LawThinking through the International, pp. 208 - 228Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021