Contributor
Roberts, Andrew, 1937- editor.
ImprintCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Description1 online resource (xx, 1063 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Note:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).
Note:Introduction / Andrew Roberts -- The imperial mind / Andrew Roberts -- Aspects of economic history / C.C. Wrigley -- Christianity / Richard Gray -- Islam / C.C. Stewart -- African cross-currents / Andrew Roberts -- The Maghrib / Michael Brett -- French black Africa / Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, Elizabeth Edwards and Andrew Roberts -- British West Africa and Liberia / D.C. Dorward -- Belgian Africa / B. Jewsiewicki, Yvonne Brett and Andrew Roberts -- Portuguese Africa / Andrew Roberts -- Southern Africa / A.P. Walshe and Andrew Roberts -- British Central Africa / John McCracken -- East Africa / Andrew Roberts -- Ethiopia and the Horn / Richard Caulk -- Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan / M.W. Daly.
Note:By 1905 most of Africa had been subjected to European rule; in the 1940s, the colonial regimes faced widespread and mounting opposition. Yet the period surveyed in this volume was no mere interlude of enforced quiescence. The cash nexus expanded hugely, as Africans came to depend for access to household necessities upon the export overseas of primary products. The impact of white rule on African health and welfare was extremely uneven, and African lives were stunted by the labour requirements of capitalist enterprise. Many Africans suffered greatly in the First World War and in the world depression of the 1930s. By 1940 a majority of Africans were either Muslim or Christian. Literate Africans developed new solidarities: tribal, territorial, regional and Pan-African. Meanwhile, the colonial powers were themselves improving their understanding of Africa and trying to frame policies accordingly. Co-operation with indigenous rulers often seemed the best way to retain control at minimum cost, but the search for revenue entailed disruptive economic change.
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