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From 1870 to 1905

Series The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 6

Edited by Roland Oliver and G. N. Sanderson

Publication Date 1985

Hardback ISBN-10
0521228034

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521228039

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521228039

Overview

Volume 6 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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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction
by
Roland Oliver

Africa on the Eve of Partition
by
A. E. Atmore

The European Partition of Africa: Origins and Dynamics
by
G. N. Sanderson

North Africa
by
Jean Ganiage

Western Africa, 1870–1886
by
Yves Person

Western Africa, 1886–1905
by
J. D. Hargreaves

Western Equatorial Africa: French Congo and Gabon 1886–1905
by
Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch

Western Equatorial Africa: King Leopold's Congo, 1886–1908
by
Jean Stengers and Jan Vansina

Southern Africa, 1867–1886
by
Shula Marks

Southern and Central Africa, 1886–1910
by
Shula Marks

Portuguese Colonies and Madagascar: A. Angola and Mozambique, 1870–1905
by
Alan K. Smith and Gervase Clarence Smith

Portuguese Colonies and Madagascar: B. Madagascar and France, 1870–1905
by
Hubert Deschamps

East Africa 1870–1905
by
Marcia Wright

The Nile Basin and the Eastern Horn, 1870–1908
by
G. N. Sanderson

The European Scramble and Conquest in African History
by
John Lonsdale

Bibliographical Essays

Bibliography

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