The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 6J. D. Fage, Roland Anthony Oliver, G. N. Sanderson 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. |
Contents
by ROLAND OLIVER Professor of African History | 10 |
SwahiliArabs | 70 |
Origins | 96 |
North Africa | 159 |
Western Africa 18701886 | 208 |
From the Bandama to the Volta | 227 |
From the upper Niger to the upper | 238 |
From the upper Senegal to the middle | 245 |
Republic | 472 |
The construction of the modern South | 481 |
Portuguese colonies and Madagascar | 493 |
B Madagascar and France 18701905 | 521 |
ΙΟ East Africa 18701905 | 539 |
The Nile basin and the eastern Horn 18701908 | 592 |
The European scramble and conquest | 680 |
Bibliographical essays | 767 |
S Western Africa 18861905 | 257 |
Western Equatorial Africa | 298 |
Vansina | 327 |
Southern Africa 18671886 | 359 |
Southern and Central Africa 18861910 | 422 |
The colonial presence north of | 448 |
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Other editions - View all
The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 6 J. D. Fage,Roland Anthony Oliver,G. N. Sanderson No preview available - 1975 |
The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 6 J. D. Fage,Roland Anthony Oliver No preview available - 1975 |
The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 6 J. D. Fage,Roland Anthony Oliver No preview available - 1985 |
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