The Cambridge history of Africa. Volume 6, From 1870 to 1905 [electronic resource] / edited by Roland Oliver and G.N. Sanderson.

Contributor Oliver, Roland Anthony, editor.

ImprintCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Description1 online resource (xvi, 956 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Note:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).

Note:Introduction / Roland OliverAfrica on the Eve of Partition / A.E. Atmore -- The European Partition of Africa: Origins and Dynamics / G.N. Sanderson -- North Africa / Jean Ganiage and Yvonne Brettt -- Western Africa, 1870-1886 / Yves Person and Yvonne Brett -- Western Africa, 1886-1905 / J.D. Hargreaves -- Western Equatorial Africa -- French Congo and Gabon 1886-1905 / Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch and Yvonne Brett -- King Leopold's Congo, 1886-1908 / Jean Stengers and Jan Vansina -- Southern Africa, 1867-1886 / Shula Marks -- Southern and Central Africa, 1886-1910 / Shula Marks -- Portuguese Colonies and Madagascar -- Angola and Mozambique, 1870-1905 / Alan K. Smith and Gervase Clarence Smith -- Madagascar and France, 1870-1905 / Hubert Deschamps and Brett Yvonne -- East Africa 1870-1905 / Marcia Wright -- The Nile Basin and the Eastern Horn, 1870-1908 / G.N. Sanderson -- The European Scramble and Conquest in African History / John Lonsdale.

Note:Volume VI of The Cambridge History of Africa covers the period 1870-1905, when the European powers (Britain, France, Germany, Portugal and Italy) divided the continent into colonial territories and vied with each other for control over vast tracts of land and valuable mineral resources. At the same time, it was a period during which much of Africa still had a history of its own. Colonial governments were very weak and could exist only by playing a large part both in opening up the continent to outside influences and in building larger political unities. The volume begins with a survey of the whole of Africa on the eve of the paper partition, and continues with nine regional surveys of events as they occured on the ground. Only in northern and southern Africa did these develop into classical colonial forms, with basis of outright conquest. Elsewhere, compromises emerged and most Africans were able to pursue the politics of survival. Partition was a process, not an event. The process was essentially one of modernisation in the face of outside challenge.

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